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Monday, 1st November 2010

Curated information: what it means for researchers [ABSTRACT]

By Sue Eipert

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Modern professional curation involves digital as well as physical objects. The Digital Curation Centre describes digital curation as 'maintaining, preserving and adding value to digital research data throughout its lifecycle'. Data curation is not unlike traditional curation in that it includes selection of data, database and user interface design, the construction of ontologies, determination of access policy, preservation issues etc. For the researcher, curated databases are a great source - not only for the information, but also for finding the original sources used and learning about the ontologies for that subject area.

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