This paper explores data curation in a Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) setting. It describes a number of salient data characteristics that are specific to the discipline and outlines some central features of the curation approach cultivated within the US LTER network. It goes on to identify recent developments within the international LTER program relating to data issues: increasing hetero...

Academic libraries need reliable information on researcher data needs, data curation practices, and attitudes to identify and craft appropriate services that support outreach and teaching. This paper describes in­ formation gathered from a survey distributed to the College of Science and Mathematics faculty at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly), a master’s-grant...

This investigation, funded by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and conducted in the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) of the Glasgow University, is part of the activities within the Data Asset Framework (DAF) to provide research organisations with an online tool to identify, locate, describe and assess how they are managing their research data assets. This resear...

TAIR (The Arabidopsis Information Resource) is the model organism database (MOD) for Arabidopsis thaliana, a model plant with a literature corpus of about 39 000 articles in PubMed, with over 4300 new articles added in 2011. We have developed a literature curation workflow incorporating both automated and manual elements to cope with this flood of new research articles. The current workflow can...

The National Archives is developing a range of practical solutions to the active preservation of electronic records, using an extensible service-oriented architecture and a central technical registry (PRONOM). This paper describes TNA’s methodologies for characterisation, preservation planning, and preservation action, the technologies being adopted to implement them, and the role of PRONOM in ...

E-science has the potential to enrich scholarly communication from the perspective of both research and learning. This paper will explore emerging infrastructure that will enable effective curation of data to deliver this potential. The exponential growth in digital data arising from e-science requires new modes of data curation. The large volume of digital data now being created calls for new ...

Digital assets in contemporary performing arts practice are vulnerable to damage and disappearance, eroding prospects of a coherent record of contemporary practice and its place in our wider digital cultural heritage. This paper summarises a study that seeks to understand and assess this threat so that appropriate solutions – if necessary – can be scoped and provided in a way accessible both to...

WormBase, dictyBase and The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) are model organism databases containing information about Caenorhabditis elegans and other nematodes, the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum and related Dictyostelids and the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana, respectively. Each database curates multiple data types from the primary research literature. In this article, w...