Context of Curation in IAGOS

To be completed by the go-between with help from the Ri-Rep.

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 IAGOS requirements for curation

Detailed requirements

1  Will the responsibility for your RI’s curation activities be shared with other organisations?  no

2. Does the curation cover datasets only or also:

i.  Software? planned

ii.  Operating environment? no

iii. Specifications/documentation? Store software together with dataset, but not versions of data. In the past, only kept the last version of data, but in the new project, IGAS, will keep all versions of data.

3. What is your curation policy on retaining/discarding

 i. Datasets? everything kept

 ii. Software? git for versioning

 iii. Operating environments? no

 iv. Documents? all

4. How will data accessibility be maintained for the long term? E.g. What is your curation policy regarding media migration?  Institute’s policy

5.  Do you track all curation activities with a logging system?  no

6. What metadata standards do you use for providing

i. Discovery, ISO 19115, INSPIRE

ii. Contextualisation (including rights, privacy, security, quality, suitability...) ISO 19115

iii. Detailed access-level (i.e. connecting software to data within an operating environment)?  General link to portal

Please supply documentation.

7. If you curate software how do you do it?  Preserving the software or a software specification? Unit test for no regression

8. What provisions will you make for curating workflows or other processing procedures/protocols?

9. If you curate the operating environment how do you do it?  Preserving the environment or an environment specification?

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?

Formalities (who & when)

Add additional rows to the above table if you have covered this topic with this RI by holding discussions with several people, or if you have delegated some discussions; to show the full authorship and duration.