The Economics of Data Integrity

by: Ricky Erway and Brian Lavoie

This brief paper is in response to a call for papers for the UNC/NSF Curating for Quality workshop. We describe the aspects of costs and sustainability of data curation as they pertain to data integrity.

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Erway, Ricky and Brian Lavoie. 2012. "The Economics of Data Integrity." In Curating for Quality: Ensuring Data Quality to Enable New Science, edited by Gary Marchionini, Christopher A. Lee, and Heather Bowden, 53- 56. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Full report: http://datacuration.web.unc.edu/files/2012/10/NSF_Data_Curation_Workshop_Report.pdf. Chapter preprint: http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/library/2012/erway-dataintegrity.pdf (.pdf: 71K/8 pp) .