Yasmin AlNoamany gave a presentation on data curation. She discussed why data curation is important for research and scholarship. Data curation involves actively managing research data throughout its lifecycle, which includes activities like data preservation, metadata extraction, data storage, and enabling data access and reuse. Without proper data curation, valuable digital research assets are at risk of being lost over time. Data curation also helps researchers gain credit for their work, ensures findings can be replicated, and supports transparency in research.

1. Data Curation
Why should we care?
Yasmin AlNoamany
Old Dominion University
Web Science and Digital Libraries Group
ws-dl.cs.odu.edu
@yasmina_anwar @WebSciDL
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Presented for CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow for Data Curation at
Vanderbilt University

2. About me
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3. Academic degrees
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Yasmin AlNoamany
Ph.D. Candidate at ODU
yasmin@cs.odu.edu
• Bachelor's degree of
Computer Science
• Master's degree in
Computer Science
• A Doctor of Philosophy in
Computer Science

4. Old Dominion University(2011-2016)
• Research Assistant:
integrating the past
with the present
“Storytelling for
Summarizing
Collections in Web
Archives”
• Teaching Assistant
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Archived collectionsStorytelling services
Archived enriched
stories

5. Internet Archive(summer 2014-fall 2014)
• Log analysis
• Tools for managing
seed URIs
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0.11.160.135 [02/Feb/2012:00:01:03] "GET
http://web.archive.org/web/20070519015308i
m_/http://www.jcdl.org/images/jcdl2007-
edie.jpg HTTP/1.1" 200 2137 "-"
"Mozilla/5.0"
0.11.160.135 [02/Feb/2012:00:01:03] "GET
http://staticweb.archive.org/images/toolba
r/wayback-toolbar-logo.png HTTP/1.1" 200
3700 "–" "Mozilla/5.0"
0.151.147.108 [02/Feb/2012:00:01:03] "GET
http://web.archive.org/web/20100102003557/
about:blank HTTP/1.1" 302 0 "www.xx.com"
"Mozilla/4.0"

6. Personal
• Women in Tech
communities:
@anitaborg,
@systers, @arabwic
• Photography
• A mom for this
adorable 7 years old
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7. Awards and publications
• Best Teaching Award
• Best Student Paper
Award
• 9 papers, in which 3
are journals.
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8. Data Curation
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Why should we care?

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10. Data Management
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Data Management

12. How I got the logs from the IA
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Source: http://www.tamr.com/real-data-scientists-enterprise/

13. Even we save the data, how it will be
shared and re-used?
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14. Metadata is important
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15. The call for a revolution in Egypt
• It all started on
Facebook
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16. Multiple initiatives for documenting
the Egyptian Revolution
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17. Several studies and books about
the Egyptian Revolution
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18. These studies and books cited
these sites
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19. They do not exist any more!
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20. Data preservation is important
for posterity
• A year after the
Egyptian Revolution,
11% of the social media
documentation is gone.
20Source: http://ws-dl.blogspot.com/2012/02/2012-02-11-losing-my-revolution-year.html

21. Data Curation is important for
scholarly research
• Managing your research data saves time
• Universities and other research organizations invest very large
sums of money into research activities
• Digital data is inherently prone to loss
• Future access to valuable digital assets depends upon
curation/preservation actions taken today
• Funding agency requirements
• Research data should be shared and publicly accessible:
• Increase the impact of your research
• Make attribution easy
• Call for accountability and transparency
• Permits others to replicate the findings of a study
• Scholarly communication chain—connecting data to publication
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22. What is Data Curation?
• “Data curation is the active and ongoing
management of research data through its lifecycle
of interest and usefulness to scholarship, science,
and education.” – Carole Palmer, UIUC GSLIS
• Data management
• Adding value to data
• Data preservation for later re-use
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23. DCC Curation life cycle
23Source: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/curation-lifecycle-model

24. CONCEPTUALIZE
Step-by-step instruction and templates for creating,
publishing and sharing data management plans that
satisfy funding agency mandates
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25. CREATE OR RECEIVE
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A collaborative working space and data-sharing platform

26. APPRAISE & SELECT
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Identification, Validation, Characterization

27. INGEST
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• Handle a wide variety of transfer processes
• Assure the availability of the research data across
institutions and publishers and keep it discoverable

28. PRESERVATION ACTION
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• Extract metadata in XML format
• Create checksum, or hashtag for the data objects

29. • Facilitate data discovery and re-use
• Raise interest in your research
• Facilitate preservation
STORE
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30. • Get credit for your data and build your reputation.
• You data is discoverable and can be attributed to you.
• Other researchers can find data associated with a
publication and explore new ways to use it.
ACCESS, USE & REUSE
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31. TRANSFORM
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Migrating the data and put them into another format

32. Summary
• What is Data Curation?
• Annotation
• Management
• Validation
• Preservation
• Sharing
• Access and Re-use
• Authentication
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• Why do we need Data
Curation?
• Long-term access
• Re-use
• Interoperability
• Reproducibility
• Cost-effective
• Time-saving
• Creditability
• Accountability

33. “Data curation systems should be
integrated with the active research
phase”
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Yasmin AlNomanyOld Dominion University
Web Science and Digital Libraries Group
ws-dl.cs.odu.edu
http://www.cs.odu.edu/~yasmin/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/yasminalnoamany
https://github.com/yasmina85/
@yasmina_anwar @WebSciDL

34. Backup Slides
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35. Data & Complexity
• Research problems
increasingly interdisciplinary
and complex
• Collaboration requires open
sharing of data
• Data are highly
heterogeneous and largely
incompatible in their native
forms
• The semantics and contexts
within which data are
gathered and interpreted are
important to preserve
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(Comic from The Official Dilbert Store)

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http://www.christianitytoday.com/edstetzer/2015/february/3-
ways-social-media-benefits-church-leaders.html