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 topics
DOIs
Assignment, granularity, etc
Requirements, exchange on implementationand lessons learnt, best practices