Results of user research project to understand data curation practices

Supporting scalable curation is a part of the mission of the Elixir Data Platform.Thus far, we have established infrastructure capable of ingesting and aggregating text-mined outputs from multiple providers and making these available via an API. This public API is used by Europe PMC to display specific entities and relationships on full text articles (via the SciLite application). To ensure that the future development of this infrastructure meets the needs of curators, we first carried out user research to understand and identify common workflow patterns and practices via an observational study. Building on these outcomes, we then devised a curator community survey to more specifically understand which entity types, sections of a paper and tools are of top priority to address. The results of the project is presented here.