What is data curation?
Data Curation is the documentation, management, and preservation of research data to produce datasets that are FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. By curating research data we add value by enhancing data sets for current use, as well as future discovery and reuse.
Source: https://libguides.uvic.ca/researchdata/researchdata/share/curationguides
What is research data?
Research data are items of recorded information "necessary to validate or reproduce your research findings, or to gain a richer understanding of them." (University of Edinburgh - Information Services). Research data encompasses a broad set of categories, from physical specimens to sensor output to the software developed to support analysis of data. Some examples of research data include:
Why curate and share your data?
Source: https://www.lib.uiowa.edu/data/share/
How can this guide help me?
This guide will assist researchers at any stage of a project in the preparation of their project's data and metadata in order to ensure it is compliant with FAIR principles: Findable, Accessible, Inter-operable, and Re-usable. The included tutorial will guide you, step by step, through the data curation process.