Context of curation in SIOS

Summary of SIOS requirements for curation

Detailed requirements

1. Will the responsibility for your RI’s curation be shared with other organisations? [can’t answer]

2. Does the curation cover datasets or also:

• Software? [can’t answer]
• Operating environment? n/a
• Specifications/documentation? [can’t answer]

 3.  What is your curation policy on discarding

• Datasets?
• Software?
• Operating environments?
• Documents?

[can’t answer]

 4.   How will data accessibility be maintained for the long term? E.g. What is your curation policy regarding media migration? [can’t answer]

5.    Do you track with a logging system all curation activities? [can’t answer]

6.     What metadata standards do you use for providing

• Discovery,
• Contextualisation (including rights, privacy, security, quality, suitability...)
• Detailed access-level (i.e. connecting software to data within an operating environment)? 

Please supply documentation.

[ISO 19115]

7.      If you curate software how do you do it?  Preserving the software or a software specification?

• What provisions will you make for curating workflows?  [can’t answer]

• If you curate the operating environment how do you do it?  Preserving the environment or an environment specification?  [can’t answer]

• What steps in tooling, automation and presentation do you consider necessary to improve take up of curation facilities and to reduce the effort required for curation?  [can’t answer]

Formalities (who & when)