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inkdroid-org-9579		Mystery File!			.html	text/html	646	33	66	We started the semester in my Digital Curation class by engaging in a little exercise I called Mystery File. The exercise was ungraded and was designed to simply get the students thinking about some of the issues we would be exploring over the semester such as files, file formats, metadata, description, communities of practice and infrastructure. The exercise also gave me an opportunity to introduce them to some of the tools and skills we would be using such as developing and documenting our work in Jupyter notebooks. The mystery file turned out to be bundle of genetic data and metadata from the public National Center for Biotechnology Information a few minutes drive from UMD at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda. Sending my students this piece from Zeynep here at the end of the semester gives me such pleasure, and is the perfect way to round out the semester as we talk about communities and infrastructure.	./cache/inkdroid-org-9579.html	./txt/inkdroid-org-9579.txt