Building and maintaining a numeric data collection
Abstract
This paper describes a set of collection development strategies for use in the identification, evaluation and selection of numeric data resources. It addresses three primary issues: the delineation of collecting scope and organisational role; the identification of potentially relevant data resources; and the evaluation of those resources in accordance with objective, systematic criteria. The policies outlined here can be applied to both print and digital resources, including machineāreadable data files, reference books, graphs and charts, genetic sequence data, and geospatial (GIS) files. The paper concludes with a discussion of unresolved issues in the acquisition and archiving of numeric data files.
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Citation
Walters, W.H. (1999), "Building and maintaining a numeric data collection", Journal of Documentation, Vol. 55 No. 3, pp. 271-287. https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000007146
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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