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| Titel |
Geoscience data: Defining policies and workflow tools for long-term storage of continuously and temporarily collected data |
| VerfasserIn |
P. Gebauer, I. Kirchner, W. Peters-Kottig, J. Klump, R. Bertelmann, B. Rusch, D. Ulbricht, M. Wattenbach |
| Konferenz |
EGU General Assembly 2012
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Artikel
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Englisch
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| Digitales Dokument |
PDF |
| Erschienen |
In: GRA - Volume 14 (2012) |
| Datensatznummer |
250066155
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| Zusammenfassung |
| The intention of the project EWIG (Developing workflow components for long-term
archiving of research data in geosciences) is to support geoscientists in transferring their data
in a standardized way for storage in digital long-term archives.
In the pilot phase test data are provided by two participating research institutions, both
producing large amounts of data. One of them - Institut für Meteorologie, Freie Universität
Berlin - provides continuously meteorological data, these data are measured every minute at
several stations throughout Berlin. The other - Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam -
conducts geophysical field experiments and thus produces data temporarily. The digital
long-term archive test system is provided by an infrastructure facility - Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum
für Informationstechnik Berlin.
Both use cases require definite ways for the digital preservation workflows. Policies for
the workflow independent from the working area will be defined.
At the beginning of the project the actual state of the art in science data preservation
policies has to be identified, gaps should be detected and analyzed, so that missing workflow
components can be designed. Contact to other institutions, having already policies for their
data lifecycle, is necessary to get an overview of existing operating procedures and data
management software tools.
Assuring the usability of the archived data is necessary during all stages of the project.
All information essential for interpreting the data has to be available in a simple way.
Usability tests of the archive will be performed together with domain scientists as well as
students (bachelor, master, graduate). Questions about the quality of data access,
documentation, metadata, etc. should be answered.
User feedback and the knowledge of the consortium will be used to compose a university
lecture or seminar series on digital data curation, so that future generations of scientists
become familiar with the handling of their data without any difficulty. Data curation should
be self-evident for scientifically working people.
Developing policies, documentations and a lecture concept is intended to advance the
re-use of archived research data by the scientific community. |
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