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Data curation is the active, ongoing management of data to ensure it remains accurate, findable, and useful long after it is collected. This post explains what data curation is, what data curators do, why the role is essential in modern research, and how PSC applies it to national-scale scientific data infrastructure.

FAIR is a set of guiding principles for scientific data management that has become a global standard. This post explains what each principle means, why it matters in modern science, and what it demands from researchers who have been doing this for years — especially around code, workflows, and reproducible computing.