Talk:Data curation

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This topic (Data Curation) should probably be merged with the topic on "Digital Curation". They seem to be the same thing.

• I disagree. There's no curational aspect to data wrangling, which is all about using data that happens to be in an inconvenient format. Data curation is about preserving for the future. Curation may make future munging easier (or less necessary) but that not it's primary goal, per se. People who do data curation almost of necessity must wrangle with data formats, but people who wrangle with data need not be concerned with its curation. There are a lot of web apps out that that screen scrape data or repurpose it in unexpected ways but I hardly think their authors are too concerned with long-term preservation. It's the difference between maintenance and application. Phette23 (talk) 06:08, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

• I disagree as well. Data wrangling/munging is but one possible activity of data curation. Rcamilled (talk) 17:01, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

• Something is amiss here. I also disagree that data wrangling and data curation should be merged into one topic. So I agree with the above two posters, and disagree with the statement that appears on the main article page. However, just above, it says that this article on data curation should be merged with an article in library science titled "Digital Curation". That does make sense to me. I think this is best kept in the area of library science. Can the note on the main page be altered to match the note at the top of this talk page? Or do we have to wait longer for others to respond to the suggestion regarding data wrangling? MarkGoldfain (talk) 15:48, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

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Minor grammar edit

I reworded the opening sentence of the Definitions and Practice section to improve grammar. Lwarres (talk) 20:50, 15 February 2018 (UTC)