IVOA Data Curation and Preservation
Chair :
Andre Schaaff Vice-Chair :
Tim Jenness
Chairs Emeritus :
Francoise Genova,
Alberto Accomazzi,
Bob Hanisch and
Reagan Moore
June 2018: following the nomination of the new chair and vice-chair the updating of this page is on going
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. Discussion topics include:
- 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
- Technology reviews concerning all aspects of curation and preservation (metadata, provenance, data integrity, media migration, replication, disaster recovery, assessment criteria, etc.)
The Interest Group will from time to time produce white papers and/or bring proposed actions to the attention of the IVOA Technical Coordination Group and IVOA Executive.
Mailing-list and membership
- General working-group discussion archive.
- Anyone interested in data curation and preservation is welcome to participate.
Previous meetings since 2010
- 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
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Links
Papers
- Smith, M., R. Moore, “Digital Archive Policies and Trusted Digital Repositories”, proceedings of The 2nd International Digital Curation Conference: Digital Data Curation in Practice, November 2006, Glasgow, Scotland.
- Moore, R., “Building Preservation Environments with Data Grid Technology”, American Archivist, vol. 69, no. 1, pp. 139-158, July 2006.
- Rajasekar, A., M. Wan, R. Moore, W. Schroeder, “A Prototype Rule-based Distributed Data Management System”, HPDC workshop on “Next Generation Distributed Data Management”, May 2006, Paris, France.
- Moore, R., J. Jaja, R. Chadduck, "Mitigating Risk of Data Loss in Preservation Environments", NASA / IEEE MSST2005, Thirteenth NASA Goddard / Twenty-second IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, April 2005.
- Moore, R., "Persistent Collections," book chapter in "Databasing the Brain," editors S. H. Koslow and S. Subramaniam, John Wiley & Sons, 2005.
- Moore, R., R. Marciano, "Prototype Preservation Environments", submitted to Library Trends, Dec. 2004.
- Moore, R., A. Rajasekar, M. Wan, "Data Grids, Digital Libraries and Persistent Archives: An Integrated Approach to Publishing, Sharing and Archiving Data", submitted to IEEE, Dec. 2004
- Moore, R., "Building Preservation Environments with Data Grid Technology", submitted to American Archivist, Oct., 2004
- Moore, R., W. Underwood, "Preservation Environments for Digital Entities," Interpares II report, June 2004.