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Table 2

Ideal-typical continuum of epistemic configurations in research data lifecycle practices

Lifecycle phase/dimension	More communitarian	Hybrid	More individualised
Processing and analysis	Shared infrastructures, collective or distributed division of labour, established pipelines; data often treated as a communal resource	Shared standards or quality requirements combined with project- or group-specific datasets and bounded multidisciplinary work	Local tools and methods, individual or small-project responsibility; data constituted primarily as the material of one’s own project
Documentation	Standardised, code-, instrument- or pipeline-based documentation integrated into the workflow	Shared standards combined with contextual or project-specific additions	Narrative, local or manual documentation, often oriented to internal intelligibility and interpretive work
Sharing	Expected or routine sharing through established infrastructures or repositories	Controlled, conditional or permission-based sharing	Negotiated, case-specific or request-based sharing; data often remain internal to the project

Lifecycle phase/dimension	More communitarian	Hybrid	More individualised
Processing and analysis	Shared infrastructures, collective or distributed division of labour, established pipelines; data often treated as a communal resource	Shared standards or quality requirements combined with project- or group-specific datasets and bounded multidisciplinary work	Local tools and methods, individual or small-project responsibility; data constituted primarily as the material of one’s own project
Documentation	Standardised, code-, instrument- or pipeline-based documentation integrated into the workflow	Shared standards combined with contextual or project-specific additions	Narrative, local or manual documentation, often oriented to internal intelligibility and interpretive work
Sharing	Expected or routine sharing through established infrastructures or repositories	Controlled, conditional or permission-based sharing	Negotiated, case-specific or request-based sharing; data often remain internal to the project

Source(s): Author’s own work