Rule-based curation and preservation of data: A data grid approach using iRODS

Hedges, Mark; Blanke, Tobias; Hasan, Adil

doi:10.1016/j.future.2008.10.003

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“…We have been demonstrating this with the East London Theatre Archive (ELTA) 16 project, which had previously digitised a variety of material such as playbills and programmes relating to theatres in the East End of London in England, material which originated from a number of physical archives. In many cases these archives were relatively small and inaccessible to researchers.…”

Section: Collectingmentioning

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“…Representations of digital objects within Fedora are formalised as content models, and our content patterns will be based upon these, and in particular upon the approach developed by the State and University Library of Denmark 20 , enabling us to develop a consistent, flexible and modular framework for representing digital humanities content. Use of the repository as a common linking factor brings other advantages, facilitating on the one hand interoperability between the various components of the emerging infrastructure, and on the other integration with institutional digital preservation policies and systems [16].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Scholarly primitives: Building institutional infrastructure for humanities e-Science

Blanke

Hedges

2013

Future Generation Computer Systems

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In this article we bring together the results of a number of humanities eresearch projects at King's College London. This programme of work was not carried out in an ad hoc manner, but was built on a rigorous methodological foundation, firstly by ensuring that the work was thoroughly grounded in the practice of humanities researchers (including 'digitally-aware' humanists), and secondly by analysing these practices in terms of 'scholarly primitives', basic activities common to research across humanities disciplines. The projects were then undertaken to provide systems and services that support various of these primitives, with a view to developing a research infrastructure constructed from these components, which may be regarded as a 'production line' for humanities research, supporting research activities from the creation of primary sources in digital form through to the publication of research outputs for discussion and re-use.

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Scholarly primitives: Building institutional infrastructure for humanities e-Science

Blanke

Hedges

2013

Future Generation Computer Systems

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“…As Cal Lee and Helen Tibbo assert, the ''set of strategies, technological approaches, and activities now termed 'digital curation''' is the result of ''[a]lmost two decades of work in digital preservation and access since the Taskforce on Digital Archiving report (Garrett and Waters 1996) to the Commission on Preservation and Access (CPA) and the Research Libraries Group (RLG)'' (Lee and Tibbo 2007). Highly cited scholars use habitually the phrase ''digital curation and preservation'' to define the field (Giaretta and Weaver 2005;Rusbridge et al 2005;Rieger 2008;Wallis et al 2008;Hedges et al 2009;Walters and Skinner 2011;Ross 2012). And, as Cunningham observes, ''digital curation'' is often used interchangeably with ''digital archiving'': ''They should not be'', he exclaims, suggesting that ''[j]ust as archiving (the management of archives and records) is but one form of curation, so too is digital archiving just one form of digital curation'' (Cunningham 2008).…”

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Digital curation beyond the “wild frontier”: a pragmatic approach

Dallas

2015

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This paper advocates the necessity of developing a pragmatic alternative to the dominant custodial theorization of digital curation as an ''umbrella concept for digital preservation, data curation, electronic records, and digital asset management''. Starting from a historical account and an examination of prevalent definitions, it points to the current dependence of digital curation on a prescriptive approach rooted in its cognate field of digital preservation, aiming to serve the needs of professional stewardship. It demonstrates the disconnect of this theorization with the rich historical traditions of museum curatorship where the notion of curation originated, its inability to act as a framework for understanding the diversity and pervasiveness of contemporary digital curation practices ''in the wild'' (such as content curation, personal archiving, and pro-am digitization), and its dependence on a ''wild frontier'' ideology dissonant with contemporary critical cultural heritage scholarship. The alternative, pragmatic approach views digital curation as a ''contact zone'' practice, routinely performed by a broad range of actors including researchers, artists, users, and communities, on dynamically evolving objects, domain knowledge representations, and interactions, beyond the curation life cycle prescribed for custodial environments. On this basis, this study calls for a formal reconceptualization of digital curation, adequate knowledge representation of its objects, evidence-based research on curation practices, and establishment of curation-enabled digital infrastructures suitable for curation in the continuum. Reaching & Costis Dallas beyond a custodial view, this approach aims to establish digital curation as a field of intellectual inquiry relevant to emerging pervasive curation practices in the digital environment.

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“…For example Pcolar et al [13] describe a use case where content is ingested into Fedora, then processed using iRODS microservices to extract metadata and store in iRODS. Hedges et al [14] represent digital curation policies and strategies as iRODS rules in order to automate preservation processes.…”

Section: Prior Artmentioning

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Cloud repositories for research data – addressing the needs of researchers

Waddington

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Knight

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Journal of Cloud Computing: Advances, Systems and Applications

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This paper describes the problems and explores potential solutions for providing long term storage and access to research outputs, focusing mainly on research data. The ready availability of cloud storage and compute services provides a potentially attractive option for curation and preservation of research information. In contrast to deploying infrastructure within an organisation, which normally requires long lead times and upfront capital investment, cloud infrastructure is available on demand and is highly scalable. However, use of commercial cloud services in particular raises issues of governance, cost-effectiveness, trust and quality of service. We describe a set of in-depth case studies conducted with researchers across the sciences and humanities performing data-intensive research, which demonstrate the issues that need to be considered when preserving data in the cloud. We then describe the design of a repository framework that addresses these requirements. The framework uses hybrid cloud, combining internal institutional storage, cloud storage and cloudbased preservation services into a single integrated repository infrastructure. Allocation of content to storage providers is performed using on a rules-based approach. The results of an evaluation of the proof-of-concept system are described.

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Rule-based curation and preservation of data: A data grid approach using iRODS

Cited by 33 publications

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Scholarly primitives: Building institutional infrastructure for humanities e-Science

Scholarly primitives: Building institutional infrastructure for humanities e-Science

Digital curation beyond the “wild frontier”: a pragmatic approach

Cloud repositories for research data – addressing the needs of researchers

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