Data curation
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In science, Data curation is a term used to indicate the process of extraction of important information from scientific texts such as research articles by experts and converting them into an electronic form such as an entry of a biological database
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According to the University of Illinois' Graduate School of Library and Information Science, "Data curation is the active and on-going management of data
through its life cycle of interest and usefulness to scholarship, science, and education. Data curation activities enable data discovery and retrieval, maintain its quality, add value, and provide for re-use over time, and this new field includes authentication, archiving, management, preservation, retrieval, and representation." Deep background on data libraries appeared in a 1982 issue of the Illinois journal, Library Trends.. For historical background on the data archive movement see "Social Scientific Information Needs for Numeric Data: The Evolution of the International Data Archive Infrastructure." .
In broad terms, curation
means a range of activities and processes done to create, manage, maintain, and validate a component.
This term is used in context of biological databases, where specific biological information is firstly obtained from a range of research articles and then stored within a specific category of database. For instance, information about Anti-depressant drugs can be obtained from various sources and after checking whether they are available as a database or not, they are saved under a drug's database's anti-depressive category.
Enterprises are also utilizing data curation within their operational and strategic processes to ensure data quality and accuracy .
The Dissemination Information Packages (DIPS) for Information Reuse (DIPIR) is studying research data produced and used by quantitative social scientists, archaeologists, and zoologists. The intended audiences is researchers who use secondary data and the digital curators, digital repository managers, data center staff, and others who collect, manage, and store digital information.
Biological database
Biological databases are libraries of life sciences information, collected from scientific experiments, published literature, high-throughput experiment technology, and computational analyses. They contain information from research areas including genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, microarray...
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According to the University of Illinois' Graduate School of Library and Information Science, "Data curation is the active and on-going management of data
Data management
Data management comprises all the disciplines related to managing data as a valuable resource.- Overview :The official definition provided by DAMA International, the professional organization for those in the data management profession, is: "Data Resource Management is the development and execution...
through its life cycle of interest and usefulness to scholarship, science, and education. Data curation activities enable data discovery and retrieval, maintain its quality, add value, and provide for re-use over time, and this new field includes authentication, archiving, management, preservation, retrieval, and representation." Deep background on data libraries appeared in a 1982 issue of the Illinois journal, Library Trends.. For historical background on the data archive movement see "Social Scientific Information Needs for Numeric Data: The Evolution of the International Data Archive Infrastructure." .
In broad terms, curation
Curation
Curation may refer to:*Digital curation, the preservation and maintenance of digital assets*Sheer curation, a minimalist form of digital curationCuration may also be:*The work performed by a curator*Archiving, historical record keeping...
means a range of activities and processes done to create, manage, maintain, and validate a component.
This term is used in context of biological databases, where specific biological information is firstly obtained from a range of research articles and then stored within a specific category of database. For instance, information about Anti-depressant drugs can be obtained from various sources and after checking whether they are available as a database or not, they are saved under a drug's database's anti-depressive category.
Enterprises are also utilizing data curation within their operational and strategic processes to ensure data quality and accuracy .
The Dissemination Information Packages (DIPS) for Information Reuse (DIPIR) is studying research data produced and used by quantitative social scientists, archaeologists, and zoologists. The intended audiences is researchers who use secondary data and the digital curators, digital repository managers, data center staff, and others who collect, manage, and store digital information.