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Research data management is the basis for making data more Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. In this context, little attention is given to research data in image format. This article presents the preliminary results of a study on the habits related to the management of images in research. We collected 107 answers from researchers using a questionnaire. These researchers were PhD students, fellows and university professors from Life and Health Sciences, Exact Sciences and Engineering, Natural and Environmental Sciences and Social Sciences and Humanities. This study shows that 83.2% of researcher use images as research data, however, its use is generally not accompanied by a guidance document such as a research data management plan. These results provide valuable insights into the processes and habits regarding the production and use of images in the research context.
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Joana Rodrigues is supported by a research grant from FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia: PD/BD/150288/2019. Special thanks to Professor Luis Teixeira for his help in the validation of the questionnaire. Thanks also to the Master in Information Science at FEUP for supporting the registration in this conference.
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Fernandes, M., Rodrigues, J., Lopes, C.T. (2020). Management of Research Data in Image Format: An Exploratory Study on Current Practices. In: Hall, M., Merčun, T., Risse, T., Duchateau, F. (eds) Digital Libraries for Open Knowledge. TPDL 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12246. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54956-5_16
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