Data Curation: Improving Environmental Health Data Quality

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2015:216:1061.

Abstract

With the growing recognition of the influence of climate change on human health, scientists' attention to analyzing the relationship between meteorological factors and adverse health effects. However, the paucity of high quality integrated data is one of the great challenges, especially when scientific studies rely on data-intensive computing. This paper aims to design an appropriate curation process to address this problem. We present a data curation workflow that: (i) follows the guidance of DCC Curation Lifecycle Model; (ii) combines manual curation with automatic curation; (iii) and solves environmental health data curation problem. The workflow was applied to a medical knowledge service system and showed that it was capable of improving work efficiency and data quality.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Data Accuracy*
  • Data Curation / methods*
  • Databases, Factual*
  • Environmental Health / statistics & numerical data*
  • Environmental Monitoring / statistics & numerical data*
  • Information Storage and Retrieval / methods*
  • Quality Improvement