Social science research data curation
issues of reuse
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https://doi.org/10.15291/libellarium.v9i2.291Keywords:
data curation, data reuse, search, browse, reusability assessment, data integration, knowledge representation, graphical visualizationAbstract
Data curation is attracting a growing interest in the library and information science community. The main purpose of data curation is to support data reuse. This paper discusses the issues of reusing quantitative social science data from three perspectives of searching and browsing for datasets, evaluating the reusability of datasets (including evaluating topical relevance, utility and data quality), and integrating datasets, by comparing dataset searching with online database searching. The paper also discusses using knowledge representation techniques of metadata and ontology, and a graphical visualization interface to support users in browsing, assessing and integrating datasets.
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