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Deluge of Scientific Data Needs to be Curated for Long-Term Use
With the world awash in information, curating all the scientifically relevant bits and bytes is an important task, especially given digital data’s increasing importance as the raw materials for new scientific discoveries, says an expert in information science at the University of Illinois.
Carole L. Palmer, a professor of library and information science at Illinois, says that data curation – the active and ongoing management of data through their lifecycle of interest to science – is now understood to be an important part of supporting and advancing research.
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