1. David Giaretta Associate Director (Development) for Chris Rusbridge (Director) Funders: Digital Curation Centre a centre of expertise in data curation and preservation

2. Development 2 DCC: Why? DCC: What? DCC: Where? DCC: Who? DCC: How and When? – Progress How can we help – each other?

3. Development 3 Time for Digital Curation problem of the moment  fragility of digital information recognised  data curation & data deluge in e-science/research  longevity of digital heritage & research investment re-examining ‘Communication’ in ICT  Internet and GRID: communication across space with utmost accuracy  Digital Curation: communication across time, with utmost accuracy ensure Content travels despite turbulence of IT  agree strategies & methods for digital preservation

4. Development 4 Unifying Themes for the DCC ‘data as evidence’ –for understanding and decision –for one or more designated communities ‘archival responsibility’ –at one or more institutional levels –institutional policies & individuals’ competence –legal compliance & agreement on procedures turn ‘open access’ into ‘continuing access’ turn costs into investment –valuing flow of benefit from re-usable assets

5. Development 5 DCC: Why? DCC: What? DCC: Where? DCC: Who? DCC: How and When? – Progress How can we help – each other?

6. Development 6 Digital Curation preservation and use/interoperability –preservation is interoperability with the future bits and information libraries and science data digital information rendered for human reading and automated processing –may be transient distinction but…

7. Development 7 Aims & Objectives for the DCC ‘quality improvement in data curation & digital preservation’ initial focus: data as evidence for scholarly conclusions wider remit: scholarly communication & eLearning ‘excellence in research & excellence in service’ working with repositories, rather than being one ‘connecting communities’ via Associates Network –universities & research institutes –scientific data tradition & document tradition –international & cross-sectoral

8. Development 8 DCC: Why? DCC: What? DCC: Where? DCC: Who? DCC: How and When? – Progress How can we help – each other?

9. Development 9 Organisation to Engage & Collaborate Industry research collaborators standards bodies testbeds & tools communities of practice: users UKOLN U of Edinburgh CCLRC U of Glasgow U of Edinburgh curation organisations eg DPC Collaborative Associates Network of Data Organisations

10. Development 10 Organisation to Engage & Collaborate Industry research collaborators standards bodies testbeds & tools communities of practice: users community support & outreach research development co-ordination service definition & delivery management & admin support curation organisations eg DPC Collaborative Associates Network of Data Organisations

11. Development 11 DCC: Why? DCC: What? DCC: Where? DCC: Who? DCC: How and When? – Progress How can we help – each other?

12. Development 12 Organisation to Succeed Phase One leadership over first eight months of funding Community Support & Outreach –Led by Dr Liz Lyon (UKOLN, University of Bath) Service Definition & Delivery –Led by Professor Seamus Ross (HATII [ERPANET], University of Glasgow) Development –Led by Dr David Giaretta (Astronomical Software & Services, CCLRC) Research –Led by Professor Peter Buneman (Informatics, University of Edinburgh) Management & Co-ordination –Director Chris Rusbridge Peter Burnhill had been Phase One Director ‘Ex Portfolio’: Malcolm Atkinson (NeSC)

13. Development 13 CCLRCUKOLN UofGUofE CMS-Bristol NIEeS RG Durham WT-CFG Leicester IC Maastricht Oxford Dutch NA Swiss NA Urbino UNC Salzburg SDSC NEODC CEH RI NCS RLG Innogen NHS Capri NTUA INRIA HUJ UPC Max- Planck MIMAS IASSIST LDC ACM Data Archive EDG GridPP EGEE Cambridge Leicester Jodrell Bank DLI (US) DPC DELOS UNC ESA NASA NARA CNES ESA RLG BNSC TU Vienna UPenn EBI MRC HGU Kyoto USC INRIA GSK Roslin IBM Almaden JHU CSIRO Caltech JHU CSIRO CDS ESO OCLC AHDS Microsoft IBM Oracle BT STK BADC BODC ESO IVOA Research Councils HEIs & FE Research Institutes International Collaborations Standards Bodies DPC MIMAS ILRT Council for Museums, Archives & Libraries RDN. OCLC So’ton OAI NOF NLA NeSC

14. Development 14 DCC: Why? DCC: What? DCC: Where? DCC: Who? DCC: How and When? – Progress How can we help – each other?

15. Development 15 Outreach User interviews and focus groups Internet Journal Web presence (http://www.dcc.ac.uk) and Portal DPC membership and collaboration Associates Network DCC Conference (Sept 29-30) PV2005 Conference (Nov 21-23)

16. Development 16 Engage Communities of Practice with those who have responsibility … to invoke/provoke good practices –appraisal & retention/disposal –logical & physical integrity: authenticity/security place research in productive research domains –eg Informatics, Law School, e-Science... work on the ‘R&D’, create services of relevance –achieve ‘virtuous circle’ –turn products of research into tools for use

17. Development 17 Services Advisory service and Help desk Site visits and case studies Curation Manual and Briefings Tools and testbeds Standards watch Certification Training

18. Development 18 Development OAIS fundamentals Registries/Repositories for Representation Information –offering a repository of tools and technical information, a focal point for digital curators –metadata standards Testbeds –for testing and evaluating tools, methods, standards and policies in realistic settings Certification –standards

19. Development 19 OAIS Reference Model – Functional Model

20. Development 20 Representation Net

21. Development 21 Layered Model from OAIS

22. Development 22 Knowledge Based Persistent Archive Attributes Semantics Knowledge Information Data Ingest Services ManagementAccess Services (Topic Maps / Buckets / Model-based Access) (Data Handling System - SRB / FTP / HTTP) MCAT/HDF Grids XML DTD SDLIP XTM DTD Rules - KQL Information Repository Attribute- based Query Feature-based Query Knowledge or Topic-Based Query / Browse Knowledge Repository for Rules Relationships Between Concepts Fields Containers Folders Storage (Replicas, Persistent IDs) ProcessInfrastructureProcess

23. Development 23 Working with Others Digital Library Federation The National Archives Global Grid Forum NARA Library of Congress Research Library Group Digital Preservation Coalition JISC community E-Science Community Associates Network …and many many more Development info – see http://dev.dcc.rl.ac.uk for details of Wiki and email list open to all

24. Development 24 Research To draw together the various functions of curation, from the traditional archival functions to the maintenance and publication of evolving knowledge as seen in scientific databases. To identify through direct research collaboration, and through interaction with the service arm of DCC, the key projects in which research is needed. To conduct research in areas already identified by the partners as crucial to digital curation. To institute two-way conduits between research and service in which practical issues can be drawn to the attention of researchers and the products of research can be tested in practice.

25. Development 25 Current research priorities Data integration and publication Performance and optimisation Annotation Appraisal and long-term preservation Socio-economic and legal context: rights, responsibilities and viability Cost-benefit analysis of the data curation process Security: safe and effective data analysis environments Automation of metadata extraction Visitors Programme and Seminar Series

26. Development 26 How can we help - each other? No one knows how to “do” curation properly There is an overlap between DCC and other JISC projects We can help each other

27. Development 27 The DCC can: act as a clearing house for ideas help to coordinate efforts undertake longer term research take particular products and generalise/package them for general use. provide some common infrastructure elements