Theoretical Research on Data Diversity

Subjects: Library Science，Information Science >> Library Science submitted time 2021-11-24

陆彩女 顾立平 聂华

Abstract： Diversity is the essential attribute of data, especially scientific data. In the context of rapid development of information technologies (ITs) and the era of open research data, the characteristics of data diversity have become more obvious. Firstly, the paper elaborates on the internal and external manifestations of data diversity. The internal manifestations are different objects in the scientific data production process, the trinity of data publishing, and different data formats when collecting and depositing data in different disciplines. The external manifestations include data curation lifecycle accelerates the diversity of data, the research lifecycle increases the diversity of data, and diversity increased because of being sharpening when in practical use. Then, the paper describes the common features and impact factors of data diversity, and introduces the application representation of data diversity from three aspects. For libraries and data librarians, recognizing the diversity of data may probably help researchers solve the required task of data deposit and data release in open research data era, and making data reuse simple and creating an ideal data ecosystem. Therefore, as a data librarian, the data management capacity and the knowledge of relevant laws, regulations, policies, and agreements of data ethics are needed, in order to provide data value-added services.

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