York Jeremy, Gutmann Myron, Berman Francine
University of Michigan.
University of Colorado Boulder.
Data Sci J. 2018;17. doi: 10.5334/dsj-2018-019. Epub 2018 Aug 17.
In the 21 century, digital data drive innovation and decision-making in nearly every field. However, little is known about the total size, characteristics, and sustainability of these data. In the scholarly sphere, it is widely suspected that there is a gap between the amount of valuable digital data that is produced and the amount that is effectively stewarded and made accessible. The Stewardship Gap Project (http://bit.ly/stewardshipgap) investigates characteristics of, and measures, the stewardship gap for sponsored scholarly activity in the United States. This paper presents a preliminary definition of the stewardship gap based on a review of relevant literature and investigates areas of the stewardship gap for which metrics have been developed and measurements made, and where work to measure the stewardship gap is yet to be done. The main findings presented are 1) there is not one stewardship gap but rather multiple "gaps" that contribute to whether data is responsibly stewarded; 2) there are relationships between the gaps that can be used to guide strategies for addressing the various stewardship gaps; and 3) there are imbalances in the types and depths of studies that have been conducted to measure the stewardship gap.
在21世纪，数字数据推动着几乎每个领域的创新和决策。然而，对于这些数据的总体规模、特征和可持续性，我们却知之甚少。在学术领域，人们普遍怀疑，所产生的有价值数字数据量与得到有效管理并可获取的数据量之间存在差距。管理差距项目（http://bit.ly/stewardshipgap）对美国受资助学术活动的管理差距特征进行调查并加以衡量。本文在回顾相关文献的基础上，给出了管理差距的初步定义，并对已制定指标并进行测量的管理差距领域，以及有待开展管理差距测量工作的领域进行了调查。所呈现的主要研究结果为：1）并非存在一种管理差距，而是存在多种“差距”，这些“差距 ”共同影响着数据是否得到妥善管理；2）这些差距之间存在关联，可用于指导应对各种管理差距的策略；3）在为测量管理差距而开展的研究类型和深度方面存在不平衡。
