Work

An Infrastructure to Support Data Integration and Curation for Higher Educational Research

Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: The recent challenges for higher education call for research that can offer a comprehensive understanding about the performance and efficiency of higher education institutions in their three primary missions: research, education, and service. In other for this to happen, it is necessary for researchers to have access to a multitude of data sources.However, due to the nature of their academic training, many higher education practitioners do not have access to expertise in working with different data sources. In this work, we describe a design and implementation for an infrastructure that will bring together the tools and the data to provide access to researchers in the field of higher education institutional research. The infrastructure will include integration and curation for data from different sources, embedded statistical environment, high performance computational back-end, and extensibility for future Big Data and unstructured data.
Authors: Linh B. Ngo, Amy Apon, Pengfei Xuan, Kimberley Ferguson, Christin Marshall, John M. McCann, Yueli Zheng
Institution: Clemson University
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1600528595
FWCI: 4.369
Cites: 6
Cited by: 7
Related to: 20