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:http://www.liberquarterly.eu/articles/10.18352/lq.7948/
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spelling doaj-47755e4d54d84eb9b19337dd189b16142021-10-02T18:51:10Zengopenjournals.nlLiber Quarterly: The Journal of European Research Libraries2213-056X2009-03-0119111210.18352/lq.79487903Taking Care of Digital Collections and Data: ‘Curation’ and Organisational Choices for Research LibrariesInge Angevaare0N/aThis 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.http://www.liberquarterly.eu/articles/10.18352/lq.7948/digital curationdigital preservationresearch libraries
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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
author_facet Inge Angevaare
author_sort Inge Angevaare
title 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_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_sort taking care of digital collections and data: ‘curation’ and organisational choices for research libraries
publisher openjournals.nl
series Liber Quarterly: The Journal of European Research Libraries
issn 2213-056X
publishDate 2009-03-01
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.
topic digital curation
digital preservation
research libraries
url http://www.liberquarterly.eu/articles/10.18352/lq.7948/
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