Curating research data in clinical trial repositories: a scoping review

• Autor(a) principal: Amaral Gonçalves Pinto, Fabiana de Melo
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: do Amaral, Janaynne Carvalho, dos Santos, Melina de Brito
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Liinc em Revista
• Texto Completo: http://revista.ibict.br/liinc/article/view/4766

ABSTRACT The article investigates the practice of curating research data in clinical trial repositories. That proposes reflections on health information and its multiple formats and suggests the definition for clinical research data. It introduces the concept of research data curation and promotes new studies, which prioritize the discussion about research data management and the Open Science movement in the health domain. The article brings points to the need to implement research data management policies that ensure criteria for data description, systematization, sharing, retrieval, interoperability, preservation and reuse. As a final reflection, it highlights the challenge of discussing and implementing the practice of curating research data produced by clinical trials and highlights the vast and timely field to be explored for both researchers and information professionals.Keywords: Data Curator; Research data; Clinical Trial; Open Science; Data Reuse.