Taking Care of Digital Collections and Data: ‘Curation’ and Organisational Choices for Research Libraries

This article explores the types of digital information research libraries typically deal with and what factors might influence libraries’ decisions to take on the work of data curation themselves, to take on the responsibility for data but market out the actual work, or to leave the responsibility t...

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Main Author: Inge Angevaare
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: openjournals.nl 2009-03-01
Series:Liber Quarterly: The Journal of European Research Libraries
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Online Access:https://liberquarterly.eu/article/view/10547
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description This article explores the types of digital information research libraries typically deal with and what factors might influence libraries’ decisions to take on the work of data curation themselves, to take on the responsibility for data but market out the actual work, or to leave the responsibility to other organisations. The article introduces the issues dealt with in the LIBER Workshop ‘Curating Research’ to be held in The Hague on 17 April 2009 ( http://www.kb.nl/curatingresearch) and this corresponding issue of LIBER Quarterly.
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spelling doaj.art-b52ce74d436540caad4486e009f2e2652024-01-11T16:06:17Zengopenjournals.nlLiber Quarterly: The Journal of European Research Libraries2213-056X2009-03-0119110.18352/lq.7948Taking Care of Digital Collections and Data: ‘Curation’ and Organisational Choices for Research LibrariesInge AngevaareThis article explores the types of digital information research libraries typically deal with and what factors might influence libraries’ decisions to take on the work of data curation themselves, to take on the responsibility for data but market out the actual work, or to leave the responsibility to other organisations. The article introduces the issues dealt with in the LIBER Workshop ‘Curating Research’ to be held in The Hague on 17 April 2009 ( http://www.kb.nl/curatingresearch) and this corresponding issue of LIBER Quarterly.https://liberquarterly.eu/article/view/10547digital curationdigital preservationresearch libraries
spellingShingle Inge Angevaare
Taking Care of Digital Collections and Data: ‘Curation’ and Organisational Choices for Research Libraries
Liber Quarterly: The Journal of European Research Libraries
digital curation
digital preservation
research libraries
title Taking Care of Digital Collections and Data: ‘Curation’ and Organisational Choices for Research Libraries
title_full Taking Care of Digital Collections and Data: ‘Curation’ and Organisational Choices for Research Libraries
title_fullStr Taking Care of Digital Collections and Data: ‘Curation’ and Organisational Choices for Research Libraries
title_full_unstemmed Taking Care of Digital Collections and Data: ‘Curation’ and Organisational Choices for Research Libraries
title_short Taking Care of Digital Collections and Data: ‘Curation’ and Organisational Choices for Research Libraries
title_sort taking care of digital collections and data curation and organisational choices for research libraries
topic digital curation
digital preservation
research libraries
url https://liberquarterly.eu/article/view/10547
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