SCARP Synthesis Study

Anyone involved in curating research data knows well that disciplines do things differently. Whether we see research domains as a thousand blooming flowers or a tower of babel, that diversity presents challenges for data curation. Through a series of seven case studies in different disciplines, the Digital Curation Centre SCARP project aimed to help understand these challenges and build on current digital data management and preservation practices in each case. One of this JISC-funded project's final outputs is a synthesis study. DCC is pleased to announce the report "Data Dimensions: Disciplinary Differences in Research Data Sharing, Reuse and Long term Viability" by Key Perspectives. The synthesis report draws on the SCARP case studies plus a number of others (identified in the Appendix), and identifies factors that help understand how curation practices in research groups differ in disciplinary terms. This provides a backdrop to different digital curation approaches.