Data curation involves maintaining digital information that is produced in the course of research in a manner that preserves its meaning and usefulness as a potential input for further research.” “
Data curation is the active and on-going management of data through its lifecycle of interest and usefulness to scholarship, science, and education.” “ http://hdl.handle.net/2142/3493
curation activities enable data discovery and retrieval, maintain quality, add value, and provide for re-use over time.” “ http://hdl.handle.net/2142/3493
A PhD student investigating historical demographics of American religion posts tables & plots of population estimates to GitHub http://bit.ly/mullendemo
Literature scholars trying to understand the scope and structure of literary history collect, clean, and normalize data from HathiTrust http://usesofscale.com/
Help - anyone have (or know of) openly licensed datasets (preferably heritage related) that can be used in @chi_initiative fieldschool?” “ http://bit.ly/canhazdata
curation activities enable data discovery and retrieval, maintain quality, add value, and provide for re-use over time.” “ http://hdl.handle.net/2142/3493
There is ... little emphasis on data discovery and interoperability across systems. Data are often presented as they were created without explicit considerations of data integration or significant reuse” “
Adopting only the data publication model expands recognizable publisher and library activities to a new class of scholarly objects but in many ways perpetuates the (problematic) status quo.
curation activities enable data discovery and retrieval, maintain quality, add value, and provide for re-use over time.” “ http://hdl.handle.net/2142/3493
The library and information science meta-science perspective articulated by [Marcia] Bates (1999) has always been fundamental to the role of providing broad, useable information collections and services, especially to support interdisciplinary research.” “ http://bit.ly/reusevalue
curation activities enable data discovery and retrieval, maintain quality, add value, and provide for re-use over time.” “ http://hdl.handle.net/2142/3493
Data curation as a “publishing” activity is increasingly important to digital humanists Data curation as publishing is not the same as data publication Data curation as publishing draws directly on the unique skills of librarians Data curation as publishing aligns directly with library missions and values