Curated Databases

Peter Buneman

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-04346-8_2

Curated Databases

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Most of our research and scholarship now depends on curated databases. A curated database is any kind of structured repository such as a traditional database, an ontology or an XML file, that is created and updated with a great deal of human effort. For example, most reference works (dictionaries, encyclopaedias, gazetteers, etc.) that we used to find on the reference shelves of libraries are now curated databases; and because it is now so easy to publish databases on the web, there has been an explosion in the number of new curated databases used in scientific research. Curated databases are of particular importance to digital librarians because the central component of a digital library – its catalogue or metadata – is very likely to be a curated database. The value of curated databases lies in the organisation, the annotation and the quality of the data they contain. Like the paper reference works they have replaced, they usually represent the efforts of a dedicated group of people to produce a definitive description of enterprise or some subject area.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
Subtitle of host publication	13th European Conference, ECDL 2009, Corfu, Greece, September 27 - October 2, 2009. Proceedings
Editors	Maristella Agosti, José Borbinha, Sarantos Kapidakis, Christos Papatheodorou, Giannis Tsakonas
Publisher	Springer
Pages	2-2
Number of pages	1
Volume	5714
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-642-04346-8
ISBN (Print)	978-3-642-04345-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04346-8_2
Publication status	Published - 2009

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Volume	5714
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743

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Buneman, P. (2009). Curated Databases. In M. Agosti, J. Borbinha, S. Kapidakis, C. Papatheodorou, & G. Tsakonas (Eds.), Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: 13th European Conference, ECDL 2009, Corfu, Greece, September 27 - October 2, 2009. Proceedings (Vol. 5714, pp. 2-2). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 5714). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04346-8_2

Buneman, Peter. / Curated Databases. Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: 13th European Conference, ECDL 2009, Corfu, Greece, September 27 - October 2, 2009. Proceedings. editor / Maristella Agosti ; José Borbinha ; Sarantos Kapidakis ; Christos Papatheodorou ; Giannis Tsakonas. Vol. 5714 Springer, 2009. pp. 2-2 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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Buneman, P 2009, Curated Databases. in M Agosti, J Borbinha, S Kapidakis, C Papatheodorou & G Tsakonas (eds), Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: 13th European Conference, ECDL 2009, Corfu, Greece, September 27 - October 2, 2009. Proceedings. vol. 5714, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5714, Springer, pp. 2-2. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04346-8_2

Curated Databases. / Buneman, Peter.
Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: 13th European Conference, ECDL 2009, Corfu, Greece, September 27 - October 2, 2009. Proceedings. ed. / Maristella Agosti; José Borbinha; Sarantos Kapidakis; Christos Papatheodorou; Giannis Tsakonas. Vol. 5714 Springer, 2009. p. 2-2 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 5714).

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