Digital Life Cycle Management Breakout session

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Digital Curation and Preservation Defining the
research agenda for the next decade Warwick
Workshop 7/8 November 2005
Breakout Session Digital Life Cycle
Management Session organisers Jessie Hey and
Neil Beagrie Chair Anne Trefethen Director
e-Science Core Programme

Focussing on an e-researchers perspective on
digital curation and preservation throughout the
scholarly knowledge life cycle Informed by
practical issues from funders and collaborative
services
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A topical example to focus the mind A fire at
the University of Southampton 31st Oct 2005


Photo Tom Kazmierski and John Lewis
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We need smart tools to provide cost effective
preservation of service to move calmly from
first shock to work as normal Key ingredients
We still have the people and the pub .and the
support of the university community and the
external community

Photos Adrian Pickering Mark Furness
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The event raises issues eg What is most important
to you? You may only be able to take one crate
from your office (and advise on the contents
from memory) Post grad My work was both in a
clean room and in an office which was
burnt Professor My updates to my electronic
books are important the publisher has a pdf but
I have all my updates from my research In our
PRESERV project we have been asking what do you
want to preserve of your research and your group
or departments research? Answers include Our
research papers and data and the context of our
research

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So the ideal is richer than the basic core of the
research and spans the whole life cycle of the
ideas and processes And involves different and
differently interested stakeholders at different
points in the cycle Mark Thorley of the Natural
Environment Research Council will introduce us
to the research councils viewpoint And we have
other representatives of funders to debate these
ideas Wellcome Trust is supporting Open Access
to papers What research will help it preserve its
data in context?

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The cost structure for securing the digital
outputs of research needs to be built in from
the beginning Helen Shenton is from the British
Library another stakeholder in the life cycle
of research She will talk about life-cycle
costing We also have representatives of
databases who both curate and promote use of
research data to explore these practicalities
Mark Thorley of the Natural Environment
Research Council will introduce us to the
research councils viewpoint And we have other
representatives of funders to debate these
ideas Wellcome Trust is supporting Open Access
to papers What research will help it preserve its
data in context?

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It is fitting that we will have an academic a
chemist - demonstrating key aspects of and
innovations in the end to end process of the
scholarly knowledge life cycle

Diagram Liz Lyon In Ariadne
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Looking to the future of Digital Life Cycle
Management and also building on Preservation
Management of Digital Materials A Handbook by
Neil Beagrie and Maggie Jones. Online version
at        http//www.dpconline.org/graphics/hand
book LIFE (Life Cycle Information for
E-Literature) - a project looking at the life
cycle of the collection and preservation of
digital material. The JISC funded project is a
collaboration between University College London
(UCL) Library Services and the British Library 
http//www.ucl.ac.uk/ls/lifeproject/  RCUK
Position statement on access to research outputs
- Online version at      http//www.rcuk.ac.uk/
access/statement.pdf

Digital Curation and Preservation Defining the
research agenda for the next decade Warwick
Workshop 7/8 November 2005