Is there such a thing as too much data? If not,who is going to be responsible for selecting what we keep? There is only starting to be a profession of data curation.Data curation will need at least three skills: exper...Is there such a thing as too much data? If not,who is going to be responsible for selecting what we keep? There is only starting to be a profession of data curation.Data curation will need at least three skills: expertise from library,archive and museum studies about choosing,preserving and explaining to users;expertise from computer science and engineering about data processing,data exploration and data storage methods;and expertise from the subject area of the material,so as to know what the data means,where it came from,and what its significance is.Will we do this work with a committee,or train one person to do everything;and if the latter,is that person likely to start from the library,computing,or subject domain?展开更多
文摘Is there such a thing as too much data? If not,who is going to be responsible for selecting what we keep? There is only starting to be a profession of data curation.Data curation will need at least three skills: expertise from library,archive and museum studies about choosing,preserving and explaining to users;expertise from computer science and engineering about data processing,data exploration and data storage methods;and expertise from the subject area of the material,so as to know what the data means,where it came from,and what its significance is.Will we do this work with a committee,or train one person to do everything;and if the latter,is that person likely to start from the library,computing,or subject domain?
