Curation in SIOS

Detailed requirements

1. Will the responsibility for your RI’s curation be shared with other organisations? [can’t answer]
2. Does the curation cover datasets or also:
   • Software? [can’t answer]
   • Operating environment? n/a
   • Specifications/documentation? [can’t answer]
3. What is your curation policy on discarding
   • Datasets?
   • Software?
   • Operating environments?
   • Documents?
     [can’t answer]
4. How will data accessibility be maintained for the long term? E.g. What is your curation policy regarding media migration? [can’t answer]
5. Do you track with a logging system all curation activities? [can’t answer]
6. What metadata standards do you use for providing
   • Discovery,
   • Contextualisation (including rights, privacy, security, quality, suitability...)
   • Detailed access-level (i.e. connecting software to data within an operating environment)?
     Please supply documentation.
     [ISO 19115]
7. If you curate software how do you do it? Preserving the software or a software specification?
   • What provisions will you make for curating workflows? [can’t answer]
   • If you curate the operating environment how do you do it? Preserving the environment or an environment specification? [can’t answer]
   • What steps in tooling, automation and presentation do you consider necessary to improve take up of curation facilities and to reduce the effort required for curation? [can’t answer]

Formalities (who & when)

Go-between	Yin Chen
RI representative	Jon Borre Orbek, Angelo Viola, Vito Vitale
Period of requirements collection	Aug 2015- Jan 2016
Status	completed