Research Data: Practical Strategies for Information Professionals, J.M. Ray. Purdue University Press (2014)

摘要

Enormous effort has been expended in transferring existing hard-copy documents into digital form, whether in the form of books, government records, journal articles, corporate or personal data. This has paralleled the generation of original digital documents which has become the preferred document creation medium for most organisations. The simultaneous development and evolution of the infrastructure supporting the Internet and subsequently the WWW has provided the perfect conduit for storing and accessing these vast silos of often unclassified and unfiltered data and information. All are potential candidates for some form of research utilisation. It is therefore not surprising that attempts to develop effective procedures to manage this data for inter alia research purposes has become a fruitful research area in its own right. This has not just been from an operational standpoint but also a strategic one. This volume's principal objective is to draw together contributions from a number of specialists to present a "state of the art" perspective of this most important aspect of information management.