Talk:Data curation

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This topic (Data Curation) should probably be merged with the topic on "Digital Curation". They seem to be the same thing.

• I disagree. There's no curational aspect to data wrangling, which is all about using data that happens to be in an inconvenient format. Data curation is about preserving for the future. Curation may make future munging easier (or less necessary) but that not it's primary goal, per se. People who do data curation almost of necessity must wrangle with data formats, but people who wrangle with data need not be concerned with its curation. There are a lot of web apps out that that screen scrape data or repurpose it in unexpected ways but I hardly think their authors are too concerned with long-term preservation. It's the difference between maintenance and application. Phette23 (talk) 06:08, 8 February 2013 (UTC)Reply

• I disagree as well. Data wrangling/munging is but one possible activity of data curation. Rcamilled (talk) 17:01, 11 February 2013 (UTC)Reply

• Something is amiss here. I also disagree that data wrangling and data curation should be merged into one topic. So I agree with the above two posters, and disagree with the statement that appears on the main article page. However, just above, it says that this article on data curation should be merged with an article in library science titled "Digital Curation". That does make sense to me. I think this is best kept in the area of library science. Can the note on the main page be altered to match the note at the top of this talk page? Or do we have to wait longer for others to respond to the suggestion regarding data wrangling? MarkGoldfain (talk) 15:48, 13 March 2013 (UTC)Reply

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For a class I have been assigned this Data Curation article, which has been rated as Start-Class on the quality scale (a fair rating in my opinion), and Mid-importance on the importance scale (I think it could gain importance if it were of a higher quality). There are several potentially confusing aspects to this article.

For example, it does not include links to the Digital Preservation or Digital Curation pages anywhere (this is a content gap), although the reverse is true. While these 3 concepts are not interchangeable, they are related, so I do think they should all link to each other.

This Data Curation page is less library-specific, and its opening definition much broader, than the other two pages. While this Data Curation page is listed under the Information Science category, it is also listed as within the scope of the WikiProject Computational Biology. Unlike the Digital Curation page, this Data Curation page is mainly about data in non-library contexts, but does go on to cite a definition from the University of Illinois’ Graduate School of Library and Information Science.

The sentence “The exact curation process undertaken within any organization depends on . . . how much noise the data contains . . .” is not clear about what it means by “noise”. Does it mean superfluous data, data that can be discarded? More precision would be helpful here.

There are also some positives about this article, such as the number of links to other Wikipedia articles. The link to the Data page is especially important because, to learn about Data Curation, it is essential to first understand the definition of data itself. However, the broad definition of curation does not link to the Wikipedia page on Curation (another content gap), though the Curation page does link to both the Data Curation and Digital Curation pages.

I fixed some of the grammar in this Data Curation article, but I’m still reading through all of the related linked pages, continuing to identify content gaps or overlap, and making notes of references to add to cover these gaps. I reworded the opening sentence of the Definitions and Practice section to improve grammar. Lwarres (talk) 20:50, 15 February 2018 (UTC)Reply

I think the history of data curation began much earlier than the 1982 date cited:

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) 1960s^[1]

For example, census data has been available in tabulated punch card form since the early 20th century. It has been electronic since the 1960s.^[2]

I may also add something about the crisis in space data, which led to the creation of the OAIS model,^[3][4] and

what institutions have shaped data curation's history and development and intellectual foundations?^[5]

Lwarres (talk) 21:03, 1 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

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