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The main curation tool for your own data is creating metadata. This involves annotating your data with standardized information in order to give it context—data about the data, if you will. Metadata is what allows data in Synapse to be searchable, discoverable, accessible, re-usable, and understandable to others, including those who were not involved in the data generation process. Metadata can be descriptive (i.e., the name of the file), administrative (i.e., provenance information), or research-based (i.e., information about the sampling and handling of data).
Learn about creating and validating metadata here.
Other tools for curating data include views, datasets, and versioning.
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