Collections Digitization Glossary

A defined term set in the domain of museum collections digitization

Terms

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Data

The process by which original, source data is inputed by a human into a digital, structured format for later use and analysis.

Data

The control of data entry and maintenance to ensure the data meets defined standards, qualities, or constraints.

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Systematic combining of data from different independent and potentially heterogeneous sources, to create a more compatible, unified view of these data for research purposes

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Entire period of time that data exists. This lifecycle describes the flow of data starting from planning, collecting, processing, analysing, preserving, sharing and finally reusing the data.

Data

Statement describing how data will be managed throughout a specified life cycle including terms regarding archiving and potential preservation of the data in a data repository. The plan is considered to be a 'living' document, i.e. one which can be updated when necessary.

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A person primarily responsible for database creation, data collection, validation, integration, coding, review, quality evaluation, and archiving, as well as for preparation of reports and data displays.

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Data preparation is the process of manipulating (or pre-processing) data (which may come from disparate data sources) to improve their quality or reduce bias in subsequent analysis.

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Detailed description of a dataset or dataset series together with additional information that will enable it to be created, supplied to and used by another party

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The statistical analysis and assessment of the quality of data values within a dataset for consistency, uniqueness and logic.

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Process whereby data are subjected to an assessment process to determine whether they should be acquired by a repository; followed by a rigorous acquisition and ingest process that results in products being publicly made available and supported for the long-term by that repository.

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Role within an organization responsible for ensuring metadata quality, integrity, and access in a manner that is consistent with policies and practices established through data governance to ensure the data is fit for reuse.

Data

An entity is a physical, digital, conceptual, or other kind of thing with some fixed aspects; entities may be real or imaginary.

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A planned data integration process that extracts concretizations of information from a data source, prepares and transforms them, then loads the transformed concretizations into a target data store.

Data

The FAIR principles are guidelines to improve the Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reuse of digital assets. The principles emphasise machine-actionability (i.e., the capacity of computational systems to find, access, interoperate, and reuse data with none or minimal human intervention) because humans increasingly rely on computational support to deal with data as a result of the increase in volume, complexity, and creation speed of data. The principles refer to three types of entities: data (or any digital object), metadata (information about that digital object), and infrastructure.

Data

A grouping of entities that share a common set of characteristics in a particular context.

Data

Designates an assigned code that is uniquely and meaningfully defined only in the local source system or within the scope of an internal management system.

Data

A self-contained component (unit or item) that is used in combination with other components.

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A Web-based resources that preserve, manage, and provide access to many types of digital materials in a variety of formats.

Data

A proposition that states a set of conditions that have to be fulfilled to achieve some specific objective.

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The capability of different information systems to communicate information consistent with the intended meaning, which encompasses the data structure elements involved, the terminology appearing as data and the associated identifiers

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A planned process with objective to check that the accuracy or the quality of a claim or prediction satisfies some criteria and which is assessed by comparing with independent results

Data

An articulation that is by social convention understood to be potentially assignable to a variable

Data

Full set of logically connected steps needed to transform input data into a result, for which one or more outputs of one data transformation step can be the input of one or more subsequent steps