Research data: contribution to establishment of a digital curation model for Brazil
Palavras-chave:
research data, digital curation, digital preservation, eScience.Resumo
The research activity in the context of eScience yields and uses an extraordinary volume of digital research data. Along the proliferation of data has raised the concern for how those data collections are to be preserved for future use and reuse. The challenge of digital curation of scientific data lies in the need to preserve not only data collections but also the ability they have to provide knowledge to future users, allowing them to reanalyze the data within new contexts. The management of research data is considered essential to the conduct of scientific research in 21 st. century, but digital research data can only be managed and preserved along the time and space through a sustained institutional commitment. To address this problem the present study presents a multi-faceted analysis on the elements necessary to defining national model of digital curation. This research is theoretical. The method used to develop it was inductive. Its started with a literature survey, identifying the major international reports on the subject and after that with the analysis of these reports has been proposed a specific model of research data digital curation for Brazil. The reports was taken as the main methodological resource the examination regarded as fundamental in addressing issues of research data curation were: reports from the National Science Foundation (NSF) [1], Digital Data Curation (DCC) [2] and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) [3,4]. As a result, the study presents an assessment of the following issues - political aspects, requiring technologies, development of data collections, organizational infrastructure, research on data curation, professional skills, economic sustainability, social, legal and ethical aspects and provisions of services – and a model where these instances are related in order to show the various actions involved in the articulation of a national policy on digital curation of research data for Brazil.[5]
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RUUSALEPP, Raivo. Infrastructure planning and data curation: a comparative study of international approaches to enabling the sharing of research data. DCC Report comissioned by JISC, 2008.
NATIONAL SCIENCE BOARD. Long-lived digital data collections: enabling research and education in the 21st century. National Science Foundation, sept. 2005.
OECD principles and guidelines for access to research data from public funding. Paris : Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2007. Disponível em: <http://www.oecd.org/sti/sci-tech/38500813.pdf> Acesso em: 20 set. 2013.
SAYÃO, Luís Fernando; SALES, Luana Farias. Dados de pesquisa: contribuição para o estabelecimento de um modelo de curadoria digital para o país. Tendências da Pesquisa Brasileira em Ciência da Informação, v. 6, n. 1, 2013.
