This article defines data curation, explains its necessity and importance, highlights the role of a data curator within a research project team, and points to resources on data curation best practices and standards.
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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