Data curation glossary: a survey on terminology and interdisciplinary perspectives

Abstract

Research is increasingly undertaken by interdisciplinary collaborative teams, which bring expertise in different research areas and in different aspects of the research process. The research workflow is evolving towards a global cyber-infrastructure providing preservation and access to research data and research results, and providing discipline-specific tools. It has to be noted that data infrastructures are stimulated by open science, data science and data sharing policies promoted by the European Commission. In this context, the role and tasks of information professionals and other professionals supporting the research process and the data management are to be re-examined.

The paper explores the first results of a survey investigating, from literature and documentary review, data curators in Europe about the state of art of the job, collecting the main concepts and terms in this domain, as well as collecting interdisciplinary perspectives.