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This article describes the Data Curation is an Advanced Data Management and Curation service Service offered by the UNC Research Data Management Core (RDMC) . This RDMC Add-on Data Management Service is designed to ensure that datasets housed in data repositories are discoverable, understandable, and usable. Members of the RDMC research data stewardship team work with investigators and project teams to develop and execute data curation workflows for data file packaging and repository ingest that align with standards and best practices for data preservation and data quality.To learn more about the RDMC Data Curation service or to obtain a quote, please submit your request via the RDMC Services websiteand how to request the Data Curation Service.

What is Data Curation?

Data curation refers to the various processes involved in ensuring that data can be discovered, accessed, understood, and used now and into the future. These processes are part of a disciplined practice that considers the technical aspects of data as an object for long-term archival preservation and access--but within the broader context of responsible and ethical conduct of research, scientific rigor and integrity, disciplinary culture and practice, and stakeholder mandates and expectations.

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RDMC Data Curation Service

The UNC Research Data Management Core (RDMC) offers a Data Curation Service to the UNC research community. This RDMC Add-on Data Management Service is designed to ensure that datasets housed in data repositories are discoverable, understandable, and usable. Members of the RDMC research data stewardship team work with investigators and project teams to develop and execute data curation workflows for data file packaging and repository ingest that align with standards and best practices for data preservation and data quality.

Data Curation Service scope of work

The scope of work for the RDMC Data Curation Service for most projects will include the following primary data curation activities:

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The RDMC Data Curation Service Fee covers the cost of executing standards-based data curation workflows for data file packaging and repository ingest, which includes file format normalization, document preparation, metadata generation, dataset package quality review, and transfer of dataset packages to the specified repository. These curation activities are carried out by RDMC data curation specialists with the specific needs of the data type, format, size, and content in mind to ensure that the data are findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (i.e., FAIR), and to satisfy all DMSP requirements.