Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
A data manager who ran all consistency checks on a clinical trial dataset before lock, named in the trial report's data-management section
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
A researcher who eyeballs their own data for obvious errors is doing routine self-check, not data validation in the role sense
Editorial commentary
Captured under CRediT ‘Validation’ and CRediT ‘Data curation’. The role overlaps with but is distinct from open-data contribution (which also includes deposit and documentation). For large datasets, a named data validator’s role is increasingly disclosed in dataset records.
References
- NISO CRediT Standard (ANSI/NISO Z39.104-2022)
- RDA DMP Common Standard v1.1
Also known as
Data quality reviewer · Dataset validator
Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
xml
<role vocab="credit"
vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
vocab-term="Data validator"
vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/data-validator" />json
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"description": "A contributor whose role is to check the integrity, accuracy, completeness, and conformance to schema of a dataset before its use, deposit, or publication — including range checks, plausibility tests, cross-source comparison, and metadata verification.",
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"url": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/data-validator",
"sameAs": [
"Data quality reviewer",
"Dataset validator"
],
"license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}
