Talk:Data curation

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 thing 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)