Should we keep everything forever (reprised)? Preservation review of research data in a repository as an art and a science
Author(s)
Braxton, Susan
Fallaw, Colleen
Luong, Hoa
Orlowska, Daria
Hetrick, Ashley
Rimkus, Kyle
Anderson, Bethany
Imker, Heidi J.
Issue Date
2018
Keyword(s)
preservation
data repository
review indicator
Illinois Data Bank
dataset
version
curation
Abstract
--This poster was accepted for iPres2018, Boston, USA--
The Illinois Data Bank was established in 2016 as an institutional file-based
repository for research data (Hetrick et al. 2018). The service commits to a minimum retention period of five years, after which deposits are to be appraised and potentially reformatted, enhanced, or withdrawn. Preservation review guidelines were established and a “review indicator” was proposed (Anderson et al., 2016) to help curators identify datasets for which an in-depth, human-mediated review may be warranted. Our poster will characterize the datasets deposited during Illinois Data Bank’s first two years in order to evaluate the following: the feasibility and utility of our proposed Review Indicator as currently formulated, and possible actions during initial curation that would minimize or eliminate the need for a five-year review of some datasets. As we continue to explore strategies to assist with the on-going stewardship of complex data collections, we hope that our efforts will spark conversations with, and insights from, others who are responsible for preserving similarly challenging collections
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