Melissa Cragin (Mcragin)

From Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)

I am a Research Assistant Professor on the faculty of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Illinois), and affiliated with the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS), where I lead the Data Practices team for the Data Conservancy, an NSF DataNet award. I am also co-Investigator on an IMLS-funded National Leadership grant investigating data sharing and curation requirements for institutional repositories, and PI for the Data Curation Education Program (DCEP) grant, also funded by IMLS. [Ph.D. in Information Science from Illinois]