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Funders will treat data where consent for a poorly worded or unnecessarily restrictive process of obtaining consent has prevented preservation and sharing as a Research Data Management failure.
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Documentation and Metadata
Research data has many re-use purposes: teaching, replicating existing research findings, repurposing for new research questions, re-used as part of larger data sets comparing, or combining data from different sources. Therefore, it is difficult to know for what it is going to be used. However, we can reasonably guess at what re-users will want to do. Most likely, discover, integrate, and aggregate data. Here good quality documentation and metadata enhance the value of the data, aid its discoverability, and facilitates wider re-use.
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