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Studies on Data Quality Control of Data Repository Abroad

Zhang Jingbei, Ren Shuhuai   

  • Online:2016-11-15 Published:2016-11-25

Abstract:

Data quality control runs through the whole data life cycle. Based on the typical case studies of domain specific data repositories and general data repositories, we summarize the main content of data quality control in foreign data repository which include the whole data file, documentation, actual data and code. Then we point out other stakeholders of data quality control which include researchers, academic libraries and journal publishers. Finally, we present the main problems and give suggestions for data quality control of data repositories.

Key words: Scientific data, Data repository, Data quality control, Data curation