What It Takes
PLAN
- Digital Curation Centre's Full Lifecycle Actions serves as the model for all digital curation processes (2008)
- "To define roles and responsibilities and build a framework of standards and technologies to implement."
- Community Watch and Participation: maintain a watch on appropriate community activities, and participate in the development of shared standards, tools and suitable softwareStore: store the data in a secure manner adhering to relevant standards.
- Dispose
: dispose of data, which has not been selected for long-term curation and preservation in accordance with documented policies, guidance or legal requirements.
Typically data may be transferred to another archive, repository, data centre or other custodian. In some instances data is destroyed. The data's nature may, for legal reasons, necessitate secure destruction.
- Migrate
: migrate data to a different format. This may be done to accord with the storage environment or to ensure the data's immunity from hardware or software obsolescence.
SCOPE : TWO GOALS
Longevity
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Accessibility
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STORAGE
After Data has been selected, appraised and then processed it must be stored. In the preservation spirit of digital curation, a storage facility must be selected that does not compromise their integrity over time. A storage facility must be
After Data has been selected, appraised and then processed it must be stored. In the preservation spirit of digital curation, a storage facility must be selected that does not compromise their integrity over time. A storage facility must be
- secure: regularly checked with limited access
- reliable: preferably on more than one carrier with geographically distributed backup systems with data recovery procedures in place
- well maintained: to replace the technical infrastructure if necessary
- committed to maintaining maintenance of digital objects
- well funded and well staffed to maintain optimal operation
FUNDING
- money for research projects or digitization projects
- government grands to take on larger national projects