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Towards Narrowing the Curation Gap—Theoretical Considerations and Lessons Learned from Decades of Practice

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العنوان: Towards Narrowing the Curation Gap—Theoretical Considerations and Lessons Learned from Decades of Practice
المؤلفون: Petrus, Ana, id_orcid:0 000-0002-0928-8894, Fischlin, Andreas, Töwe, Matthias, id_orcid:0 000-0001-9671-083X
المصدر: ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 5 (6)
بيانات النشر: MDPI
سنة النشر: 2016
المجموعة: ETH Zürich Research Collection
مصطلحات موضوعية: curation gap, research data management, digital data curation, data preservation, data lifecycle management, theory lifecycle management, archiving, best practice, info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/020, Library & information sciences
الوصف: Research as a digital enterprise has created new, often poorly addressed challenges for the management and curation of research to ensure continuity, transparency, and accountability. There is a common misunderstanding that curation can be considered at a later point in the research cycle or delegated or that it is too burdensome or too expensive due to a lack of efficient tools. This creates a curation gap between research practice and curation needs. We argue that this gap can be narrowed if curators provide attractive support that befits research needs and if researchers consistently manage their work according to generic concepts consistently from the beginning. A rather uniquely long-term case study demonstrates how such concepts have helped to pragmatically implement a research practice intentionally using only minimalist tools for sustained, self-contained archiving since 1989. The paper sketches the concepts underlying three core research activities. (i) handling of research data, (ii) reference management as part of scholarly publishing, and (iii) advancing theories through modelling and simulation. These concepts represent a universally transferable best research practice, while technical details are obviously prone to continuous change. We hope it stimulates researchers to manage research similarly and that curators gain a better understanding of the curation challenges research practice actually faces. ; ISSN:2220-9964
نوع الوثيقة: article in journal/newspaper
وصف الملف: application/application/pdf
اللغة: English
Relation: info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/wos/000379861200018; http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/117271
DOI: 10.3929/ethz-a-010667275
الاتاحة: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/117271
https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-a-010667275
Rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ; Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.CB0267E3
قاعدة البيانات: BASE
الوصف
DOI:10.3929/ethz-a-010667275