UC Irvine Libraries

A 2018 business case study to provide recommendations and justification for the support of data services at the UC Irvine Libraries. Data curation is the management of data throughout its lifecycle, from creation, maintenance and then archived for future access and analysis. The main purpose of data curation is to ensure that data is reliably retrievable for future research purposes or reuse. At its most basic, what everyone (administrators, researchers, librarians, etc.) wants is for data to be findable, to be accessible, to be interoperable, and to be reusable.