Still, in all of these examples of digital scholarship, a key challenge remains: How can we curate and manage data now that so much of it is being produced and collected in digital form?
it's that old phrase - what's the use in doing the research if you don't tell anyone about it? same thing. if you've got all this great data and publish it somewhere but we don't have a way of aggregating that data in the varied publications - how are we ever going to find all the great work that's being done?
i'll pose the question i asked using #vcuocdi - how do people catalog their student products from semester to semester? where does that live? what's the point of keeping it all on your external hard drive? is there a way we can share that Openly (using the concepts of Open Education and Access) ...