Context of curation in EMBRC / St Andrews

Questionnaire answers from EMBRC/St Andrews on Curation available at: https://envriplus.manageprojects.com/projects/requirements/notebooks/470/pages/40

Cover the stages of the data life-cycle in which the RI is involved, that pertain to the <topic> with references to more detail if the RI has them. Include quantitative and timeliness information, intended uses and so on - if such information is available.

Summary of EMBRC /St Andrews requirements for Curation

Insert a summary of the main requirements for this RI for the current topic. Point out any unusual features, and comment on the extent to which these requirements are fixed or evolving.

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.
    > At the moment this is not really done because software is developed mainly by PhD students who stop curating it once they finish their studies. There is a real need for a resource that can provide assistance for curating 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)

Go-betweenCristina Adriana Alexandru
RI representativeCharles Paxton
Period of requirements collectionNovember 2015
Status 

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