MOTIVATION Detailed curation of published molecular data is essential for any model organism database. Community curation enables researchers to contribute data from their papers directly to databases, supplementing the activity of professional curators and improving coverage of a growing body of literature. We have developed Canto, a web-based tool that provides an intuitive curation interface...

We develop new understanding of how people engage in digital curation. We interview twenty users of Pinterest, a social curation platform. We find that through collecting, organizing, and sharing image bookmarks, users engage in processes of everyday ideation. That is, they use digital found objects as creative resources to develop ideas for shaping their lives. Curators assemble information in...

A report on the third meeting of the Research Data Management Forum which was held in Manchester, UK on April 30 and May 1, 2009, with an overarching theme entitled " Value and Benefits ". The event was co-sponsored by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and the Research Information Network (RIN). The International Journal of Digital Curation is an international journal committed to scholarly exc...

In this paper, we give an overview about the current research in Big Data and Digital Curation with a focus on Lean Six Sigma and discuss how this methodology can help the Digital Curation lifecycle. For instance, the application of the Lean Six Sigma methodology is presented and discussed with a special focus on the selection, preservation, maintenance, collection and archiving of digital info...

This paper presents a brief literature review and then introduces the methods, design, and construction of the Data Curation Profile, an instrument that can be used to provide detailed information on particular data forms that might be curated by an academic library. These data forms are presented in the context of the related sub-disciplinary research area, and they provide the flow of the res...

Left unattended, digital information degrades over time. Even if the information’s bits are correctly preserved (a difficult task in itself) the technological context surrounding the bits—the computing platforms, programming languages, applications, file formats, and so forth—will change sufficiently over time until the information is no longer usable. Changes in the information’s social contex...

While some excellent lifelong learning programs in digital curation and preservation for cultural heritage information professionals exist in the US, most activities are sporadic and depend on temporary and shrinking grant funding. How best to provide continuing education on digital curation and preservation remains an open question. This paper will critique current programs, discuss key issues...

Data curation is the act of discovering a data source(s) of interest, cleaning and transforming the new data, semantically integrating it with other local data sources, and deduplicating the resulting composite. There has been much research on the various components of curation (especially data integration and deduplication). However, there has been little work on collecting all of the curation...

Digital curation emerged as an important new concept in the theory and management of cultural information, not least because of its broad applicability and promise of a universal approach to ensure future “fitness for purpose” of digital information. This paper explores curatorial traditions in the field of museums and cultural heritage, in order to contribute to the active current debate on th...