Understanding the value of curation: A survey of researcher perspectives of data curation services from six US institutions.

ABSTRACT: Data curation encompasses a range of actions undertaken to ensure that research data are fit for purpose and available for discovery and reuse, and can help to improve the likelihood that data is more FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable). The Data Curation Network (DCN) has taken a collaborative approach to data curation, sharing curation expertise across a network of partner institutions and data repositories, and enabling those member institutions to provide expert curation for a wide variety of data types and discipline-specific datasets. This study sought to assess the satisfaction of researchers who had received data curation services, and to learn more about what curation actions were most valued by researchers. By surveying researchers who had deposited data into

SUBMITTER: Marsolek W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10619857 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature