History of research data activities at Purdue University Libraries:
Data needs assessment began in Aug 2004
Associate Dean for Research hired Nov 2005
Launch of Document IR (e-Pubs) in Sept 2006
Founding of Distributed Data Curation Center (D2C2) Nov 2006
Initiation of data management services Feb 2007
Data Research Scientist hired Apr 2007
Purdue University Research Repository (PURR) initiated Aug 2010
Data Research Scientist became Data Services Specialist July 2011
Visiting Data Services Specialist hired July 2011 (left June 2012)
PURR begin to take data in Feb 2012
Full time Data Services Specialist hired Jan 2013
Third Data Specialist position created Oct 2013
As of Jan 2014 the Research Data unit is comprised of five faculty members and the PURR team, and integrate with the four subject divisions in the Libraries to support them and provide data consutlation and collaboration with faculty, staff and students across campus.