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dark data: a standalone construct

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Research data management

research data from many small projects that is poorly described, unshared and at risk of loss because it falls outside major repositories.

In research data management, dark data refers to research data from many small projects that is poorly described, unshared and at risk of loss because it falls outside major repositories. This meaning comes from Heidorn (2008) in Library Trends.[1]

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library1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct loss2 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs risk6 fields · 13 citationsjingle · one name, six constructs

References

Heidorn, P. B. (2008). Shedding Light on the Dark Data in the Long Tail of Science. Library Trends, 57(2), 280-299. https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.0.0036

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