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1 st African Digital Curation Conference

Join the 1st African Digital Curation Conference to explore the changing research environment in social sciences and humanities. Topics include mode 2 research, ICTs, communication and collaboration, information search and access, and more. Learn about the importance of data curation, re-use of data, compliance, and implementing best practices. Let's shape our own definition of data curation!

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1 st African Digital Curation Conference

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  1. 1st African Digital Curation Conference Social Sciences & Humanities 12-13 February 2008

  2. Changing Research Environment • Mode 2 Research • ICTS • Communication and Collaboration • Information Search and Access • Dissemination and publication (self-archiving, open access • E-Science • Large scale science increasingly carried out through distributed global collaborations enabled by the internet • Access to large data collections,largescale computing resources and • Require large scale storage, retrieval and transfer

  3. Importance of Data Curation • Re-use for new research • Compliance: publishers, donors, legislation • Validating research results • Cannot recreate unique data • Cheaper to maintain expensively created data than re-generate • Existing data can be enriched • Technology obsolescence • Open access to publicly funded research (public good) • Implementing best practice

  4. What is Data Curation? • What should a definition encompass? • Preservation • Access • Storage • Data quality • Data integrity • Re-use • Usability • E-science • Appraisal

  5. What is data curation? “ … includes but goes beyond that of data archiving and digital preservation, to include the active management and appraisal of data over the life cycle of scholarly and scientific interest” Dr Peter Burnhill, Director, Digital Curation Centre, Edinburgh, UK

  6. What is data curation? 'The activity of managing and promoting the use of data from its point of creation to ensure it is fit for contemporary purpose, and available for discovery and re-use’. E-science Curation Report: Data Curation for e-science in UK, JISC, 2003

  7. Lets Shape our Own Definition

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