Data Curation is an Advanced Data Management and Curation 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, submit a request via the RDMC service portal.
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 within the broader context of responsible and ethical conduct of research, scientific rigor and integrity, disciplinary culture and practice, and stakeholder mandates and expectations.
The practice of data curation includes
The data curator
what does a data curator do and what are their qualifications
Data curation standards and best practices
Data Curation Lifecycle
CURATE(D)
FAIR Principles
10 Things
OAIS
Why curate data?
benefits of curating data
RDMC Data Curation Service
what is included
how we assess the scope of work
example
Budgeting for data curation
Data curation is considered by federal funding agencies to be an allowable cost that can be included in the proposal budget.
Budget justification
budget justification boilerplate