© 2012 IBM Corporation Symposium on Digital Curation 0 The Future Workforce Steven Miller IBM

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© 2012 IBM Corporation

Symposium on Digital Curation

The Future Workforce

Steven Miller

IBM

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Who needs data curation skills?

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Not just your employees & contractors… Bloggers, Media, and Customers are curating your story

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What makes curation easy?

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Storify

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/curation_tool_storify_opens_to_the_public.php

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What makes curation hard?

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Limited Life Spans of Current Storage Technology

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Can you trust online reviews?

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Redaction is harder than it looks

http://dataprivacylab.org/projects/identifiability/paper1.pdf

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Redaction is harder than it looks

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_oak08netflix.pdf

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Unintended impacts of regulation make Retention hard

The class-action lawsuit asserted Netflix violated a section of the law requiring personally identifiable information to be destroyed within a year "from the date that the information is no longer necessary for the purpose for which it was collected."

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Market Trends

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Recent Job Postings

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Enterprise Governance Architect

Define & manage the quality, consistency, usability, security, & availability of information

Ensure compliance with local, state, federal, and international regulations

Define and protect key organizational information assets

Define and manage processes to ensure data quality and remediate data errors

Define and manage appropriate levels of security at many levels

Define processes to protect against security issues such as identity and data theft

Define processes to ensure appropriate testing occurs before implementing

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Enterprise Architect – Data Governance Perform baseline logical reviews on key system, content, data, and process assets.

Create and maintain a comprehensive governance architecture for the Enterprise Conceptual Information Model, Content Assets, and Data Assets.

Ensure governed assets adhere to architectural principles and “Golden Rules”

Work with Domain Architects as key interaction point for communication, evangelism, governance and feedback into central architecture

Work with Business / Product Strategy in order to stay up to date with business / product direction in order to anticipate long-lead-time technology needs.

Work with peers within other enterprise information management pillars to develop and maintain business strategy, policies, standards and guidelines pertaining to global enterprise information

Ensure information model, information assets, governance architecture and program are aligned to the business goals across the company and the various business units

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Data Curator & Analyst Develop and maintain tools/codes for day-to-day extraction, curation and management of

phenotypic, genomic, breeding process, and logistical data

Be instrumental for extracting and providing clean data to statistical analysis team, IT team, breeders and managements as per request

Develop matrix to measure and track the quality improvements of phenotypic and genomic data

Proactively increase awareness of value of the data quality among breeders and researchers across the company

Work closely with corporate IT groups and statistical teams to identify and implement methods to automate tracking of breeding pipeline and increase quality of pipeline data in order to reduce time in structuring, characterizing and cleaning data.

Create and present summary statistics and reports to researchers and management

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Senior Data Steward

Support, build, and sustain relationships with analysts, leads, supervisors and managers within the TFS Business organization on designated projects

Lead all activities (planning, analysis, testing & reconciliation) in support of the delivery of small, medium, and large data and reporting projects and initiatives

Serve as liaison between Business Intelligence and TFS Business units to support requests for data and analysis

Analyze, monitor, profile and administer the metadata, quality and reconciliation of data within assigned areas on designated projects

Prepare and execute detailed data assessments and corrective action plans

Co-develop and execute the process of training business users on how to fully leverage and use TFS' business intelligence tools/reports/applications

Serve as a subject matter expert on TFS data for specific subject areas

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What education programs are needed?

Core CompetenciesAll Students

Core CompetenciesAll Students

Master’s in IT Information / Data Architects

Governance Architects

Master’s in IT Information / Data Architects

Governance Architects

“Governance Specialists”Data Curators/Stewards

Data Quality / Master Data

“Governance Specialists”Data Curators/Stewards

Data Quality / Master Data

MBA’sExecutive Education

Business Leaders

MBA’sExecutive Education

Business Leaders

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What’s needed?

Awareness

Curriculum recommendations

Significant increase in programs

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Resources for Governance Professionals

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Symposium on Digital Curation http://cgoc.com

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Symposium on Digital Curation http://infogovcommunity.com

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Symposium on Digital Curation http://dataversity.net

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Symposium on Digital Curation http://elearningcurve.com

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Symposium on Digital Curation http://IBMdatamag.com

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