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Founding documents

Founding documents

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Founding documents

- [Narrator] In this video, I'm going to talk about what I call Founding Documents that you will want to include in your data curation. Have you ever stopped to ask yourself, "What am I doing?" And whatever you are doing, why are you doing it? I don't mean in general, I mean with respect to the data project you are working on. I worked a lot at the government, so I found myself working on public projects. Public health databases, environmental databases, databases that hold economic data, those kind of things. If you are working on a private project, like a database at a bank or insurance, the database was probably the result of an upgrade sometime in the past. Or maybe it was the result of a merger between databases because there was some sort of merging of businesses in the past. Whatever data project you are working on, private or public, it got started somehow. Maybe you are just working on a small study, doing a…

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