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I found myself back in Ohio on Sunday, attending the American Society for Information Science & Technology 2008 conference. Columbus shares some interesting features with Cincinnatti including pro sports arenas, a winding river, impressive 20th century american architecture, and wide one-way streets.
Following the opening session, I went to a panel discussion on e-research and the provision of libary services. The panel surveyed some large scale projects in the UK and US and talked about issues of preservation, reseracher engagement, re-use of stored data, and the value that multi-instutitional funding brings to these large data repository projects. Not suprisingly, these are the same issues libraries have been disucssing in relation to building institutional repositories and I was interested to hear about a project at Purdue that works directly with Liaisons to connect with faculty and their research data.