Paper Info
Title
Towards Sustainable Curation and Preservation: The SEAD Project's Data Services Approach
Abstract
When the effort to curate and preserve data is made at the end of a project, there is little opportunity to leverage ongoing research work to reduce curation costs or conversely, to leverage curation efforts to improve research productivity. In the Sustainable Environment Actionable Data (SEAD) project, we have envisioned a more active approach to data curation and preservation in which these processes occur in parallel with research and generate sufficient short and long-term return on researcher investments for self-interest to drive their adoption. In this paper, we describe the conceptual framework motivating the SEAD project and the suite of data services we have developed and deployed as an initial implementation of this approach. Use cases in which these services can reduce curation effort and aid ongoing research are highlighted and, based on our experience to date, we identify some key architectural features of our approach as well as open challenges to fully realizing the value of this approach in the broad ecosystem of cyberinfrastructure.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/eScience.2015.56
e-Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
data curation, data preservation, research productivity, semantic web, content management, web services
Metadata,Data mining,Computer science,Semantic Web,Data curation,Cyberinfrastructure,The Conceptual Framework,Content management,Web service,Data as a service
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2325-372X
9
0.67
References 
Authors
9
15
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
James Myers134956.21
Margaret Hedstrom211816.11
Dharma Akmon391.69
Sandy Payette490.67
Beth Plale51837142.80
Inna Kouper618639.36
D. Scott Mccaulay77212.75
Robert McDonald8409.90
Isuru Suriarachchi9162.58
Aravindh Varadharaju1090.67
Praveen Kumar115711.27
Mostafa Elag1290.67
Jong Lee1391.01
Rob Kooper141234235.10
Luigi Marini158514.61