(physorg.com): With the world awash in information, curating all the scientifically relevant bits and bytes is an important task, especially given digital data's increasing importance as the raw materials for new scientific discoveries. Data curation - the active and ongoing management of data through their lifecycle of interest to science - is now understood to be an important part of supporting and advancing research. The biggest difficulties in collecting, curating and managing large amounts of data over the long term have to do with cost and labour.
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