IVOA Data Curation and Preservation

"Share best practices and engage IVOA member projects in the long-term curation and preservation of astronomical data"

Chair : Andre Schaaff Vice-Chair : Tim Jenness

Chairs Emeritus : Francoise Genova, Alberto Accomazzi, Bob Hanisch and Reagan Moore

Events:

• our next session is scheduled at IVOA Virtual in May 2021

Last news:

• The IVOA Note about DOIs around astronomical data is near its first public release, around ADASS/IVOA Groningen period
• We have a now a tool area on this page, if it helps curation and preservation it is welcome !

History

DCP Interest Group roots

Charter

The Data Curation and Preservation (DCP) Interest Group is established to share best practices and engage IVOA member projects in the long-term curation and preservation of astronomical data.

Main discussion topics:

• Identification of at-risk data and data collections
• Processes for engaging the community in curation and preservation activities
• Coordination with strategic partners such as astronomical data centers, research libraries, and scholarly publishers
• Feedback about related work done in Research Data Alliance, liaison with the RDA WG/IG implied in DCP and related items
• Technology reviews concerning all aspects of curation and preservation (metadata, provenance, data integrity, media migration, replication, disaster recovery, assessment criteria, etc.)

The Interest Group is entitlement to produce white papers and/or to bring proposed actions to the attention of the IVOA Technical Coordination Group and IVOA Executive.

Hot topic(s)

• DOIs
  • Assignment, granularity, etc
  • Requirements, exchange on implementationand lessons learnt, best practices
  • On going work area (outdated) Work is going on through an IVOA Note and discussions during the sessions
  • The IVOA Note is near its first public release (around ADASS/IVOA period)

How to participate ?

• Anyone interested in data curation and preservation is welcome to participate and to register to the mailing-list (archives) to receive the news.
• The presentations and discussions are held during the semestrial IVOA meetings, do not hesitate to participate.

Resources and tools

• FITS

Links

• RDA - Research Data Alliance, https://www.rd-alliance.org/
• Library of Congress Digital Preservation, http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/about/initiatives.html
• UK Digital Curation Center, http://www.dcc.ac.uk/
• DOI, https://www.doi.org/
• ORCID, https://orcid.org/

Past initiatives

• ERPANET - Electronic Resource Preservation and Access Network, http://www.erpanet.org/
• DILIGENT - Digital Library Infrastructure on Grid Enabled Technology, https://dbis.dmi.unibas.ch/research/projects/diligent/
• Global Grid Forum - Preservation Environments Working Group, http://www.gridforum.org

More details about our activities

Since the creation of the DCP Interest Group we had many presentations and discussions, please refer to the past meetings:

• May 2020, Virtual, InterOpMay2020DCP
• May 2019, Paris, InterOpMay2019DCP
• November 2018, College Park, InterOpNov2018DCP
• May/June 2018, Victoria Interop, InterOpMay2018DCP
• October 2017, Santiago Interop, InterOpOct2017DCP
• May 2017, Shanghai, InterOpMay2017DCP
• October 2016, Trieste, InteropOct2016DCP
• May 2016, Cape Town, InterOpMay2016DCP
• October/November 2015, Sydney, InterOpOctober2015DCP
• June 2015, Sexten, No session
• October 2014,Banff, InterOpOct2014SemanticsDCP
• May 2014, Madrid, No session
• October 2013, Hawaii, InterOpSep2013DCP
• May 2013, Heidelberg, InterOpMay2013DCP
• October 2012, Sao Paulo, InterOpOct2012DCP
• May 2012, InterOpOct2012DCP
• October 2011, Pune, InterOpOct2011DCP
• May 2011, Naples, InteropMay2011DCP
• Dec 2010, Nara, InterOpDec2010DCP
• May 2010, Victoria, InterOpMay2010DCP
• ... see ivoa.net for the older meetings