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  • Rusbridge, C. and Burnhill, P. and Ross, S. and Buneman, P. and Giaretta, D. and Lyon, L. and Atkinson, M. (2005) The Digital Curation Centre: a vision for digital curation. In: Local to Global Data Interoperability - Challenges and Technologies: 20th-24th June 2005, Sardinia, Italy. IEEE, Piscataway, N.J., USA, pp. 31-41. ISBN 0780392280

    http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/33612/ Deposited on: 26 July 2010

    Enlighten – Research publications by members of the University of Glasgow http://eprints.gla.ac.uk

  • The Digital Curation Centre: A Vision for Digital Curation

    Chris Rusbridge Peter Burnhill Seamus Ross Digital Curation Centre

    (DCC), University of Edinburgh

    c.rusbridge@ed.ac.uk

    Digital Curation Centre (DCC), & EDINA, University

    of Edinburgh p.burnhill@ed.ac.uk

    Digital Curation Centre (DCC), & HATII, University of

    Glasgow s.ross@hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk

    Peter Buneman David Giaretta Liz Lyon Digital Curation Centre

    (DCC) & School of Infomatics University of Edinburgh

    Digital Curation Centre (DCC), & Council for the Central Laboratory of the

    Research Councils (CCLRC) d.l.giaretta@rl.ac.uk

    Digital Curation Centre (DCC), & UKOLN e.lyon@ukoln.ac.uk

    Malcolm Atkinson National e-Science Centre,

    Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow & School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh

    mpa@nesc.ac.uk

    Abstract We describe the aims and aspirations for the Digital

    Curation Centre (DCC), the UK response to the realisation that digital information is both essential and fragile. We recognise the equivalence of preservation as "interoperability with the future", asserting that digital curation is concerned with 'communication across time'. We see the DCC as having relevance for present day data curation and for continuing data access for generations to come. We describe the structure and plans of the DCC, designed to support these aspirations and based on a view of world class research being developed into curation services, all of which are underpinned by outreach to the broadest community.

    Introduction

    The foundation of the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) reflects the belief that long term stewardship of digital assets is the responsibility of everyone in the digital information value chain [15]. The maintenance, usability and survival of digital resources depends on regular planned interventions; care needs to be taken at

    conception, at creation, during use, and as use transitions to lower levels. It may be tempting to view e-Science or Cyber-infrastructure as concerning huge, often distributed databases in current use, quite distinct from viewing digital preservation as concerned with more common, much smaller files, ensuring they are available for the future. The Open Archival Information System (OAIS) model's [5] emphasis on ingest, followed by preservation management, and then later acts of dissemination, does tend to suggest a model where resources are put away in safe keeping for the future. In reality, the DCC views digital curation as a continuum of activities, supporting the requirements for both current and future use [21]. Huge datasets in current use need action now to ensure their future utility, while digital preservation has always deprecated 'dark' inaccessible archives.

    The long term value of data rests in their potential as evidence, their reuse possibilities, and their role in facilitating compliance and in ameliorating risk. Curation, the active management and care of data is the key to realising that potential. As scholarly research and scientific study becomes increasingly driven by the analysis of data, long term access to these data is

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  • crucial in enabling the verification of scientific discovery and to providing a data platform for future research.

    This view of curation embraces and goes beyond that of enhanced present-day re-use, and of archival responsibility, to embrace stewardship that adds value through the provision of context and linkage: placing emphasis on publishing data in ways that ease re-use and promoting accountability and integration. Context and linkage are terms rich in intention, with implications for metadata and interoperability. Resource discovery and retrieval requires mark-up with time/place referencing as well as subject description and linkage to discipline-based ontology.

    Only by promoting the ideas that underpin digital curation from the conception and creation of our digital assets until long after they have passed out of their primary usefulness can we claim to have succeeded. The Digital Curation Centre, through its organisation, emphases and practical activities closely reflects these ideals and it aims to catalyse action in innovative research, development, service delivery, and outreach. Its primary aims are: • to promote an understanding of the need for digital

    curation among the communities of scientists and scholars;

    • to provide services to facilitate digital curation; • to share knowledge of digital curation among the

    many disciplines for which it is essential; • to develop technology in support of digital curation;

    and, • to conduct long-term research into all aspects of

    digital curation The DCC has been funded for three years in the first

    instance by the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) [24] and the UK e-Science Core Programme of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) [19]. Three quarters of the project's funding was awarded by the JISC from March 2004 with the remaining 25% coming on stream at the beginning of September later that year. By working with other practitioners and agencies the DCC will support UK institutions to store, manage and preserve digital assets to ensure their enhancement and their usability over the long term [26]. The DCC is the national focus for research into curation issues and to promote expertise and good practice, both nationally and internationally, in the management of all research outputs in digital format. The drivers which led to the establishment of the DCC are an increasing awareness within the scientific and research community that digital assets are reusable, that access to them is essential if contemporary scholarship is to be verifiable

    and reproducible, and that for many reasons ranging from degradation of media to metadata drift and to technological obsolescence they are fragile.

    Engaging the community

    The DCC represents a collaborative effort led by a consortium of four institutions, each bringing diverse experience in a range of Digital Curation areas. It brings together organisations across three Universities and a research council. Led by the University of Edinburgh [35], which hosts the School of Informatics [7,31], the National eScience Centre (NeSC) [27], the EDINA national data centre [17], the AHRC Centre for the Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law [2], the DCC consortium includes HATII [22] at the University of Glasgow [36], UKOLN [32] at the University of Bath [34], and the Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC) [6]. Given the broadness and pervasiveness of the digital curation challenge the core partners recognise that a sustainable contribution can only be made if widespread activity can be leveraged. To ensure that this happens the partners have established mechanisms to support the development of a network of associates.

    Engaging the community and creating conduits between our different activities with other research, development, services and user communities is essential if the DCC is to deliver the catalytic impact its funders envisaged in the call for expression of interest in JISC Circular 6/03, issued in September 2003 [25]. It is crucial for the Centre's success that it benefits from the diversity of expertise available within the UK digital curation community, and that the broadest range of communities needing digital curation support and services are engaged in its activities. These different communities should help steer the DCC's research programme, contribute to its community building events, and benefit from the advisory services that it operates. Science and scholarship are international in nature, and best practice in digital curation must reflect that. This is immediately obvious in such fields as astronomy, physics and bioinformatics, where data are increasingly created and curated by multi-national consortia. This requires international collaboration for shared development and consensus on methodology and standards. The demand for digital preservation technologies comes from and will be met by a wider community than academia; therefore, the DCC must engage with the industrial and business communities. In building such relationships the DCC will create outlets for the technologies and methods it develops and benefit from access to commercial developments.

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