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Articles I want to work on

 * 1) Community Archives
 * 2) Data curation
 * 3) Digital curation (with a particular focus on covering data practices in the sciences)

As you're working on the data curation article, the addition of the list of significant projects is a good start. For each of these you should include a short summary of the project activities and its findings, particularly as they relate to data curation. You may also consider posting a list of criteria for identifying significant projects on the article's Talk page. The list of sources all are good additions to the article. Have you identified where you will add the citations in the article? Morskyjezek (talk) 10:36, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

Sources of interest for Data Curation
"Foundations of Data Curation"

Curating Research Data

Preparing the Workforce for Digital Curation

Projects and studies
The Dissemination Information Packages (DIPS) for Information Reuse (DIPIR) project is studying research data produced and used by quantitative social scientists, archaeologists, and zoologists. The intended audience is researchers who use secondary data and the digital curators, digital repository managers, data center staff, and others who collect, manage, and store digital information.

Important Projects in Data Curation

 * 1) Sloan Digital Sky Survey - http://www.sdss.org/ - Started in 1998, includes over 3 million stellar objects, imaging data for about a third of the night sky.
 * 2) Protein Data Bank - https://www.rcsb.org/pages/aboutus - Established in 1971 at Brookhaven National Laboratory, describes itself as the "single worldwide repository of information about the 3D structures of large biological molecules, including proteins and nucleic acids." Nearly 100k entries in the archives. Data standardization - standardizing nomenclature; data validation - validate model against experimental data; cross-referencing data with UniProt, DrugBank, etc.
 * 3) SEAD - http://sead-data.net/ - connected to DataNet. Sustainable Environment/Actionable Data. Launched in 2011 through DataNet. Data services.
 * 4) Environmental Data Initiative - https://environmentaldatainitiative.org/about/edi/ - connected to DataONE. Began in 2016. Ecological & environmental data. Ecological Metadata Language (EML) standard.
 * 5) DataONE - https://www.dataone.org/ - Data Observation Network for Earth. NSF Grants. Connected to DataNet.
 * 6) Flybase - http://flybase.org/ - Dates back to 1993. Repository for Drosophila genes and genomes.
 * 7) Linguistic Data Consortium - Dates back to 1992. Repository for linguistics data.