Context of curation in EMBRC / St Andrews

Questionarie answers from EMBRC/St Andrews on Identification and Citation available at: https://envriplus.manageprojects.com/projects/requirements/notebooks/470/pages/40

Summary of EMBRC /St Andrews requirements for Curation

Detailed requirements

1. Will the responsibility for your RI’s curation be shared with other organisations?
   > Possibly
2. Does the curation cover datasets or also
   > It covers Software, Operating environment and Specifications/documentation
3. What is your curation policy on discarding
   > None
4. How will data accessibility be maintained for the long term? E.g. What is your curation policy regarding media migration?
   > None to my knowledge
5. Do you track with a logging system all curation activities?
   > Not to my knowledge
6. What metadata standards do you use for providing
   a. Discovery,
   b.Contextualisation (including rights, privacy, security, quality,suitability...)
   c.Detailed access-level (i.e. connecting software to data within an operating environment)?
   > No standard policy
7.  If you curate software how do you do it? Preserving the software or a software specification?
   > Preserving the software but we also specify software.
8.  What provisions will you make for curating workflows?
   > It varies
9. If you curate the operating environment how do you do it? Preserving the environment or an environment specification?
   > Not relevant
10. 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?
    > Not relevant

Formalities (who & when)