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Title
Digital Data Preservation and Curation: A Collaboration Among Libraries, Publishers, and the Virtual Observatory - A pilot project aimed at preserving, curating, and enabling access to digital data and associated electronic journals content.
Subtitle (en)
Presentation - iPRES 2006 - Ithaca
Language
English
Description (en)
Astronomers are producing and analyzing data at ever more prodigious rates. NASA's Great Observatories, ground-based national observatories, and major survey projects have archive and data distribution systems in place to manage their standard data products, and these are now interlinked through the protocols and metadata standards agreed upon in the Virtual Observatory. However, the digital data associated with peer-reviewed publications is only rarely archived. Most often, astronomers publish graphical representations of their data but not the data themselves. Other astronomers cannot readily inspect the data to either confirm the interpretation presented in a paper or extend the analysis. Highly processed data sets reside on departmental servers and the personal computers of astronomers, and may or may not be available a few years hence. We are investigating ways to preserve and curate the digital data associated with peer-reviewed journals in astronomy. The technology and standards of the VO provide one component of the necessary technology. A variety of underlying systems can be used to physically host a data repository, and indeed this repository need not be centralized. The repository, however, must be managed and data must be documented through high quality, curated metadata. Multiple access portals must be available: the original journal, the host data center, the Virtual Observatory, or any number of topically-oriented data services utilizing VO-standard access mechanisms.
Keywords (en)
iPRES, Ithaca
Author of the digital object
Teresa  Ehling
Ray  Plante
Robert  Milkey
Ethan  Vishniac
Alex  Szalay
Tim  DiLauro
Sayeed  Choudhury
Julie  Steffen
Robert  Hanisch
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application/pdf
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1.9 MB
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CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
Conferences
Conference 2006
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Created
04.07.2013 03:01:52
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