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User Engagement in Research Data Curation

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In recent years information systems such as digital repositories, built to support research practice, have struggled to encourage participation partly due to inadequate analysis of the requirements of the user communities. This paper argues that engagement of users in research data curation through an understanding of their processes, constraints and culture is a key component in the development of the data repositories that will ultimately serve them. In order to maximize the effectiveness of such technologies curation activities need to start early in the research lifecycle and therefore strong links with researchers are necessary. Moreover, this paper promotes the adoption of a pragmatic approach with the result that the use of open data as a mechanism to engage researchers may not be appropriate for all disciplinary research environments.

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  • digital curation
  • research data management
  • open data
  • digital repository services
  • user engagement

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  1. e-Research Centre, University of Oxford, 7 Keble Road, Oxford, OX1 3QG, UK

    Luis Martinez-Uribe

  2. University of Edinburgh, EDINA, 160 Causewayside, Edinburgh, EH9 1PR, Scotland

    Stuart Macdonald

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  1. Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Via Gradenigo 6/a, 35131, Padova, Italy

    Maristella Agosti

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering IST, Instituto Superior Técnico, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001, Lisboa, Portugal

    José Borbinha

  3. Department of Archives and Library Sciences, Ionian University, 72 Ioannou Theotoki str., 49100, Corfu, Greece

    Sarantos Kapidakis

  4. Department of Archives and Library Sciences, Ionian University, 72 Ioannou Theotoiki str., 49100, Corfu, Greece

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Martinez-Uribe, L., Macdonald, S. (2009). User Engagement in Research Data Curation. In: Agosti, M., Borbinha, J., Kapidakis, S., Papatheodorou, C., Tsakonas, G. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. ECDL 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5714. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04346-8_30

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