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Enhancing Digital Curation and Preservation through Collaborative Expertise and Standards

The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) serves as a vital hub for expertise in data curation and preservation. Led by Associate Director David Giaretta, the DCC facilitates engagement and collaboration among organizations, fostering communities of practice. The center focuses on developing metadata standards, designing testbeds for evaluating tools, and establishing a repository of resources. Emphasizing interoperability and automated use, the DCC adheres to OAIS principles while balancing preservation needs with current data utility. The DCC also explores accreditation and certification processes to ensure long-term trust in curation practices.

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Enhancing Digital Curation and Preservation through Collaborative Expertise and Standards

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  1. Digital Curation Centre a centre of expertise in data curation and preservation DCC Development David Giaretta Associate Director (Development) Funders:

  2. Organisation to Engage & Collaborate curation organisations eg DPC communities of practice: users community support & outreach Collaborative Associates Network of Data Organisations service definition & delivery management & admin support research collaborators research development co-ordination testbeds& tools Industry standards bodies

  3. Development – initial plans • Registries/Repositories • offering a repository of tools and technical information, a focal point for digital curators • metadata standards • Testbeds • for testing and evaluating tools, methods, standards and policies in realistic settings • Certification • standards Development

  4. What can we rely on in the Long Term? • The bits (original or migrated) • let us for the moment put to one side the issue of BIT PRESERVATION (but it is an issue) • Physical documents that people can read • e.g. ISO standards on paper • Additional information we collect – either held by the DCC, its collaborators or successors Development

  5. Preservation “vs” Current Use • There are already very many architectures to support immediate use of information • Aim to support these • Therefore chose to be guided by • long-term preservation aspects • try to ensure that components of the preservation architecture can supplement other “current use” architectures. • to promote this we should emphasise “interoperability” and “automated use” as far as possible. • based initially on OAIS Reference Model – but not limited to that Development

  6. OAIS Reference Model – Functional Model Development

  7. OAIS – Preservation Planning - key aspects • Designated Communities & Knowledge Base • Representation Net Development

  8. curation organisations eg DPC communities of practice: users community support & outreach Collaborative Associates Network of Data Organisations service definition & delivery management & admin support research collaborators research development co-ordination testbeds& tools Industry standards bodies Representation Net Development

  9. Representation Information vs File Format • File Format provides only limited information • Knowing that a file is in Word 6.0 format does not allow one to understand its contents e.g. • File contains French text • File has text with specialised terms • Science data file (e.g. FITS) also has keywords and values • What do they mean? • Representation Information is not limited in this way • N.B. includes File Format • See DCC demo • Registry/Repository of Representation Info • Low cost of “buy-in” Development

  10. curation organisations eg DPC communities of practice: users community support & outreach Collaborative Associates Network of Data Organisations service definition & delivery management & admin support research collaborators research development co-ordination testbeds& tools Industry standards bodies Archival Information Package Development

  11. curation organisations eg DPC communities of practice: users community support & outreach Collaborative Associates Network of Data Organisations service definition & delivery management & admin support research collaborators research development co-ordination testbeds& tools Industry standards bodies Testbeds • Hardware used by “curators” in the wild • Details from projects • Hardware suppliers • Software suppliers • Commercial • Non-commercial Development

  12. curation organisations eg DPC communities of practice: users community support & outreach Collaborative Associates Network of Data Organisations service definition & delivery management & admin support research collaborators research development co-ordination testbeds& tools Industry standards bodies Standards and Audit & Certification • How can people know to whom their information can be entrusted? • OAIS follow-on standard(s) underway • on which a certification program can be based • From the standards: • need to establish accreditation and certification bodies in preparation for offering audit and certification services • audit, certification and accreditation are potential sources of long term funding for the DCC • Testbeds and testing procedures • for software certification • hardware and software systems will need to be purchased, hired or borrowed. • we expect to work with hardware and software manufacturers to certify hardware and software components Development

  13. curation organisations eg DPC communities of practice: users community support & outreach Collaborative Associates Network of Data Organisations service definition & delivery management & admin support research collaborators research development co-ordination testbeds& tools Industry standards bodies Working with Others • Digital Library Federation • The National Archives • Global Grid Forum • NARA • Library of Congress • Research Library Group • Digital Preservation Coalition • JISC community • E-Science Community • Associates Network • …and many more Development info – see http://dev.dcc.rl.ac.uk/twiki/bin/view for details of Wiki and email list open to all Development

  14. The Virtuous Circle curation organisations eg DPC communities of practice: users community support & outreach Collaborative Associates Network of Data Organisations service definition & delivery management & admin support research collaborators research development co-ordination testbeds& tools Industry standards bodies

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