1. © 2012 IBM Corporation Symposium on Digital Curation 0 The Future Workforce Steven Miller IBM

2. © 2012 IBM Corporation Symposium on Digital Curation 1  Who needs data curation skills?

3. © 2012 IBM Corporation Symposium on Digital Curation 2 Who needs data curation skills?

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5. © 2012 IBM Corporation Symposium on Digital Curation 4 Not just your employees & contractors… Bloggers, Media, and Customers are curating your story

6. © 2012 IBM Corporation Symposium on Digital Curation 5 What makes curation easy?

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8. © 2012 IBM Corporation Symposium on Digital Curation 7 Storify http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/curation_tool_storify_opens_to_the_public.php

9. © 2012 IBM Corporation Symposium on Digital Curation 8 What makes curation hard?

10. © 2012 IBM Corporation Symposium on Digital Curation 9 Limited Life Spans of Current Storage Technology

11. © 2012 IBM Corporation Symposium on Digital Curation 10 Can you trust online reviews?

12. © 2012 IBM Corporation Symposium on Digital Curation 11 Redaction is harder than it looks http://dataprivacylab.org/projects/identifiability/paper1.pdf

13. © 2012 IBM Corporation Symposium on Digital Curation 12 Redaction is harder than it looks http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_oak08netflix.pdf

14. © 2012 IBM Corporation Symposium on Digital Curation 13 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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21. © 2012 IBM Corporation Symposium on Digital Curation 20 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

22. © 2012 IBM Corporation Symposium on Digital Curation 21 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

23. © 2012 IBM Corporation Symposium on Digital Curation 22 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

24. © 2012 IBM Corporation Symposium on Digital Curation 23 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

25. © 2012 IBM Corporation Symposium on Digital Curation 24 What education programs are needed? Core Competencies All Students Master’s in IT Information / Data Architects Governance Architects “Governance Specialists” Data Curators/Stewards Data Quality / Master Data MBA’s Executive Education Business Leaders

26. © 2012 IBM Corporation Symposium on Digital Curation 25 What’s needed? Awareness Curriculum recommendations Significant increase in programs

27. © 2012 IBM Corporation Symposium on Digital Curation 26 Resources for Governance Professionals

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