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Practical Digital Data Curation
Gayle Palmer, Digital & Preservation Services Manager
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January 2006
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Definition: Data Curation
“Digital curation, broadly interpreted, is about maintaining and adding value to, a trusted body of digital information for current and future use.”
[Digital Curation Center (DCC) United Kingdom, approach to digital curation] (definition taken from Lorcan Dempsey’s blog)
http://orweblog.oclc.org/cgi-bin/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&search=data+curation
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Definition: Data Curation
“Data’s future quality –richness, trustworthiness– is a function of investment in it.”
[Philip Lord, et. al. “From Data Deluge to Data Curation;” JISC Joint Committee for the Support of Research, DCC approach to digital curation.]
http://dev.dcc.ac.uk
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Digital Program Data
Frequently talk about metadata standards
Technical infrastructure standards
Documentation of all relevant data
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Which data sources are important?
Standards adopted & documented
Policies, regulations in effect
Best Practices adopted & documented
Metadata of all types
Technical infrastructure documentation
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Which data sources are important?
Legal documentation
Intellectual property assets
Risk management policies
Evaluation & assessment metrics
Budget & financial data
User data
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Standards vs implementation
Implementation workflow—
Adoption of standards
Adoption of best practices models
Implementation within institutional policy framework
Consistency through a local style guide
Documentation of decisions and change management
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Collection data sources
In Metadata--
Administrative
Rights
Descriptive
Structural
Technical
Preservation
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IT Data Sources
In information technology— Computers and the physical hardware used to
interconnect them with their users users.
Transmission media, (telephone lines, cable television lines, and satellites and antennas)
also routers and other devices that control transmission paths.
Software used to send, receive, and manage the signals that are transmitted.
Everything that supports the flow and processing of information.
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Long-term program policy and procedures
Technology and tools will constantly change Policies, procedures consistently applied Preservation depends on program
management Procedures for digital program should be
reviewed, updated, vetted and documented regularly
Best practices will be achieve through constant testing and review
Data gathering and documentation are the best defense.
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Data curation awareness
Recognition of need
Education & training
Start early, revise often
Aggregation of policies, protocols, standards
Communication of responsibility
