What Do We Know About The Stewardship Gap?
dc.contributor.author | York, Jeremy | |
dc.contributor.author | Gutmann, Myron | |
dc.contributor.author | Berman, Francine | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-07-18T02:56:50Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-07-18T02:56:50Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-07-17 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/122726 | |
dc.description.abstract | In the 21st century, digital data drive innovation and decision-making in nearly every field. However, little is known about the total size, characteristics, and sustainability of these data. In the scholarly sphere, it is widely suspected that there is a gap between the amount of valuable digital data that is produced and the amount that is effectively stewarded and made accessible. The Stewardship Gap Project (http://bit.ly/stewardshipgap) seeks to investigate characteristics of and measure the stewardship gap for sponsored scholarly activity in the United States. This paper presents a preliminary definition of the stewardship gap based on a review of relevant literature and investigates areas of the stewardship gap for which metrics have been developed and measurements made, and where work to measure the stewardship gap is yet to be done. The main findings presented are 1) there is not one stewardship gap but rather multiple “gaps” that contribute to whether data is responsibly stewarded; 2) there are relationships between the gaps that can be used to guide strategies for addressing the stewardship gap; and 3) there are imbalances in the types and depths of studies that have been conducted to measure the stewardship gap. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | * |
dc.subject | Research Data | en_US |
dc.subject | Data Stewardship | en_US |
dc.subject | Digital Preservation | en_US |
dc.subject | Digital Curation | en_US |
dc.subject | Data Sustainability | en_US |
dc.title | What Do We Know About The Stewardship Gap? | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Information and Library Science | |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Off-Campus Research Affiliate | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/122726/1/StewardshipGap_Final.pdf | |
dc.description.filedescription | Description of StewardshipGap_Final.pdf : Main article | |
dc.owningcollname | Library (University of Michigan Library) |
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