Participatory Prototype Design: Developing a Sustainable Metadata Curation Workflow for Maternal Child Health Research
This paper describes the findings from a participatory prototype design project, where the authors worked with maternal and child health (MCH) researchers and stakeholders to develop a MCH metadata profile and sustainable curation workflow. This work led to the development of three prototypes: 1) a...
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2018-12-01
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| description | This paper describes the findings from a participatory prototype design project, where the authors worked with maternal and child health (MCH) researchers and stakeholders to develop a MCH metadata profile and sustainable curation workflow. This work led to the development of three prototypes: 1) a study catalogue hosted in Dataverse, 2) a metadata and research records repository hosted in REDCap and 3) a metadata harvesting tool/dashboard hosted within the Shiny RStudio environment. We present a brief overview of the methods used to develop the metadata profile, curation workflow and prototypes. Researchers and other stakeholders were participant-collaborators throughout the project. The participatory process involved a number of steps, including but not limited to: initial project design and grant writing; scoping and mapping existing practices, workflows and relevant metadata standards; creating the metadata profile; developing semi-automated and manual techniques to harvest and transform metadata; and end project sustainability/future planning. In this paper, we discuss the design process and project outcomes, limitations and benefits of the approach, and implications for researcher-oriented metadata and data curation initiatives. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-da5fec665e404312984b0a109522ffcf2022-12-22T02:12:29ZengUniversity of EdinburghInternational Journal of Digital Curation1746-82562018-12-0113110.2218/ijdc.v13i1.534Participatory Prototype Design: Developing a Sustainable Metadata Curation Workflow for Maternal Child Health ResearchAmanda Harrigan0Saurabh Vashishtha1Sharon Farnel2Kendall Roark3University of AlbertaUniversity of AlbertaUniversity of AlbertaPurdue UniversityThis paper describes the findings from a participatory prototype design project, where the authors worked with maternal and child health (MCH) researchers and stakeholders to develop a MCH metadata profile and sustainable curation workflow. This work led to the development of three prototypes: 1) a study catalogue hosted in Dataverse, 2) a metadata and research records repository hosted in REDCap and 3) a metadata harvesting tool/dashboard hosted within the Shiny RStudio environment. We present a brief overview of the methods used to develop the metadata profile, curation workflow and prototypes. Researchers and other stakeholders were participant-collaborators throughout the project. The participatory process involved a number of steps, including but not limited to: initial project design and grant writing; scoping and mapping existing practices, workflows and relevant metadata standards; creating the metadata profile; developing semi-automated and manual techniques to harvest and transform metadata; and end project sustainability/future planning. In this paper, we discuss the design process and project outcomes, limitations and benefits of the approach, and implications for researcher-oriented metadata and data curation initiatives.http://www.ijdc.net/article/view/534 |
| spellingShingle | Amanda Harrigan Saurabh Vashishtha Sharon Farnel Kendall Roark Participatory Prototype Design: Developing a Sustainable Metadata Curation Workflow for Maternal Child Health Research International Journal of Digital Curation |
| title | Participatory Prototype Design: Developing a Sustainable Metadata Curation Workflow for Maternal Child Health Research |
| title_full | Participatory Prototype Design: Developing a Sustainable Metadata Curation Workflow for Maternal Child Health Research |
| title_fullStr | Participatory Prototype Design: Developing a Sustainable Metadata Curation Workflow for Maternal Child Health Research |
| title_full_unstemmed | Participatory Prototype Design: Developing a Sustainable Metadata Curation Workflow for Maternal Child Health Research |
| title_short | Participatory Prototype Design: Developing a Sustainable Metadata Curation Workflow for Maternal Child Health Research |
| title_sort | participatory prototype design developing a sustainable metadata curation workflow for maternal child health research |
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