Digital Libraries for Experimental Data: Capturing Process through Sheer Curation

Mark Hedges; Tobias Blanke

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-40501-3_11

Digital Libraries for Experimental Data: Capturing Process through Sheer Curation

Mark Hedges, Tobias Blanke

Digital Humanities

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This paper presents an approach to the ‘sheer curation’ of experimental data and processes of a group of researchers in the life sciences, which involves embedding data capture and interpretation within researchers’ working practices, so that it is automatic and invisible to the researcher. The environment described does not capture just individual datasets, but the entire workflow that represents the ‘story’ of the experiment, including intermediate files and provenance metadata, so as to support the verification and reproduction of published results. As the curation environment is decoupled from the researchers’ processing environment, a provenance graph is inferred from a variety of domain-specific contextual information as the data is generated, using software that implements the knowledge and expertise of the researchers.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
Subtitle of host publication	International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2013
Editors	Trond Aalberg, Christos Papatheodorou, Milena Dobreva, Giannis Tsakonas, Charles J Farrugia
Place of Publication	Berlin
Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Pages	108-119
Number of pages	12
Volume	N/A
Edition	N/A
ISBN (Print)	9783642405006
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40501-3_11
Publication status	Published - 2013

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Volume	8092
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743

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Hedges, M., & Blanke, T. (2013). Digital Libraries for Experimental Data: Capturing Process through Sheer Curation. In T. Aalberg, C. Papatheodorou, M. Dobreva, G. Tsakonas, & C. J. Farrugia (Eds.), Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2013 (N/A ed., Vol. N/A, pp. 108-119). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 8092). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40501-3_11

Hedges, Mark ; Blanke, Tobias. / Digital Libraries for Experimental Data : Capturing Process through Sheer Curation. Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2013. editor / Trond Aalberg ; Christos Papatheodorou ; Milena Dobreva ; Giannis Tsakonas ; Charles J Farrugia. Vol. N/A N/A. ed. Berlin : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013. pp. 108-119 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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Hedges, M & Blanke, T 2013, Digital Libraries for Experimental Data: Capturing Process through Sheer Curation. in T Aalberg, C Papatheodorou, M Dobreva, G Tsakonas & CJ Farrugia (eds), Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2013. N/A edn, vol. N/A, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 8092, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, pp. 108-119. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40501-3_11

Digital Libraries for Experimental Data: Capturing Process through Sheer Curation. / Hedges, Mark ; Blanke, Tobias.
Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2013. ed. / Trond Aalberg; Christos Papatheodorou; Milena Dobreva; Giannis Tsakonas; Charles J Farrugia. Vol. N/A N/A. ed. Berlin: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013. p. 108-119 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 8092).

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Hedges M , Blanke T. Digital Libraries for Experimental Data: Capturing Process through Sheer Curation. In Aalberg T, Papatheodorou C, Dobreva M, Tsakonas G, Farrugia CJ, editors, Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2013. N/A ed. Vol. N/A. Berlin: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 2013. p. 108-119. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-40501-3_11

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