A Research on How to Develop Data Curation Service in Academic Library from Professors’ Viewpoint
Date Issued
2012
Date
2012
Author(s)
Chin, Yun-Han
Abstract
Sharing and preservation of research data attracts lots of attention in the academic environment because of the trend of interdisciplinary and transnational research. Data Curation provide a good solution to data sharing and preservation. Data Curation, which involves maintaining, preserving and adding value to research data, can help researchers to access and reuse the data as well as to maximize its value and reduce resource waste. How to preserve and manage large amounts of data effectively is a very important issue for the academic institutions because of the trends of data-intensive research. The researchers who produce and use the research data will be the main target of data curation service, so what researchers want and need is very important to the academic institutions which try to develop the data curation service.
This thesis investigates the professors’ attitudes towards the concept of data curation and what they want or need for the data curation service . “Interviewing” is applied from the qualitative perspective and 12 of the professors of National Taiwan University were interviewed from the August, 2011, through the May, 2005. Following conclusions are derived by analyzing the interviewing results.
1. The development of data curation in United Kingdom and the United States can be the best practice for academic libraries in Taiwan which want to develop the data curation service
2. High diversity in the resource of research data.
3. The sharing of research data can not affect the current research.
4. Researchers’ attitude toward data publication is negative.
5. Data curation service should provide feedback to their research.
Subjects
Data curation
research data
user study
Type
thesis
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