Lecture, three and one half hours. Designed for MLIS students. Continuation of course 262A to address topics of data curation and policy in more depth. Data selection and appraisal, archives and repositories, economics of data management, data citation and metrics, technologies for data access and curation, provenance, intellectual property, policy roles of multiple stakeholders in data, and institutional challenges in curation and stewardship of research data. Assessment of data archives and repositories and group project to curate actual data of UCLA researchers in other academic departments. Letter grading.