Prospectus for the RDA P5 BoF Session on Deconstructing the Data Life Cycle
- Re-examine current models related to data life cycle notions of data curation
- Identify case studies about data sets or collections that can form the basis for a comparative analysis
- Develop alternative abstract models for agile curation throughout the data life story
- Validate alternative models with case studies
- Develop a plan going forward v-a-v working on this in the RDA framework
- Introductions
- Background regarding the genesis of this effort, work to date.
- Why Agile?
- Provide a template for both documenting an A.C. case study and a T.D.M. example (the T.D.M example may contribute to an Agile Curation case study but not all T.D.M. examples will constitute a case study) - http://goo.gl/P7wuFY
- Case studies can be used for comparative analysis of real-world data curation
- Case studies can be used to validate the abstract model
- Opportunity to start the conversation with concrete examples[e]
- Showing / learning how curation can evolve
- Greenland Ice Melt T.D.M. example
- Sea Ice as a T.D.M example
- Others???
- Showing / learning how curation can evolve
Discussion / Next Steps (50 mins)
- Identify more case studies
- Examples of agile curation
- Data reuse examples with an explicit consideration of investments required to facilitate data reuse
- Discuss issues in more depth
- BoF Results
- Discuss the potential for a white paper or publication
- Outline paper / writing assignments / timetable
- Does the group want to continue as an RDA IG.
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