In a recent scoping study we have inquired into the data management needs of several research groups at the University of Porto and concluded that data quality and ease of on-line data manipulation are among the most valued features of a data repository. This paper describes the ensuing approach to data curation, designed to streamline the data depositing process and built on two components: a ...

The increasing volume and importance of research data leads to the emergence of research data infrastructures in which data management plays an important role. As a consequence, practices at digital archives and libraries change. In this paper, we focus on a possible alliance between archives and libraries around training activities in data curation. We introduce a so-called FrontOffice–BackOff...

Social media has become ubiquitous. Tweets and other user-generated content have become so abundant that better tools for information organization are needed in order to fully exploit their potential richness. ”Social curation” has recently emerged as a promising new framework for organizing and adding value to social media, complementing the traditional methods of algorithmic search and aggreg...

Egas is a web-based platform for text-mining assisted literature curation, supporting the annotation and normalization of concept mentions and relations between concepts. Egas allows the definition of different curation projects with specific configuration in terms of the concepts and relations of interest for a given annotation task, as well as the ontologies used for normalizing each concept ...

BioC is a simple XML format for text, annotations and relations, and was developed to achieve interoperability for biomedical text processing. Following the success of BioC in BioCreative IV, the BioCreative V BioC track addressed a collaborative task to build an assistant tool for BioGRID curation. For this track, we divided the whole task into 8 different subtopics including gene/protein/orga...

In the current digital age, data are everywhere and are continually being created, collected and otherwise captured by a range of users for a variety of applications. Curating digital content is a growing concern both for business users and academic researchers. Selecting, collecting, preserving and archiving digital assets, especially research data sets, are important steps in the research lif...

To date many institutional repository (IR) software suppliers have pushed the IR as a digital preservation solution. We argue that the digital preservation of objects in IRs may better be achieved through the use of light-weight, add-on services. We present such a service – PRONOMROAR – that generates file format profiles for IRs. This demonstrates the potential of using thirdparty services to ...

The requirements to support large-scale and complex research collections are growing at an accelerated pace. Considering the continuous evolution of the collections, their increasing sizes, the technologies supporting them, and the importance of adequate data management to long-term preservation, a team at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) developed a cyberinfrastructure to aid researc...

Information service providers and infrastructure providers are increasingly dealing with questions regarding the data curation relevance of research data. The field of video studies in educational research provides a wide range of research data types. In addition, constraints in terms of data collection, storage and data privacy need to be considered. In order to analyze the suitability of vide...

With the advancement of genome-sequencing technologies, new genomes are being sequenced daily. Although these sequences are deposited in publicly available data warehouses, their functional and genomic annotations (beyond genes which are predicted automatically) mostly reside in the text of primary publications. Professional curators are hard at work extracting those annotations from the litera...