What do users want from the DCC DCC
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What do users want from the DCC? DCC User Requirements Analysis } Leona Carpenter - 21 October 2004
Overview } There are some surprises … § My perception of these } … and some things we expected § The main points people made } Recommendations / Priorities § First thoughts 21/10/04 Leona Carpenter : DCC-URA 2
The Surprises § Hardware and media advice is needed 21/10/04 Leona Carpenter : DCC-URA 3
The Surprises Hardware and media advice is needed } Repository hosting … } …or more realistically: support for a network of repositories } Level of willingness to contribute / participate } 21/10/04 Leona Carpenter : DCC-URA 4
Community Building } Sharing solutions § Peer-to-peer communication § Library of documented solutions Case studies (periodically updated) } Lead along with peers in other countries } § Standardisation efforts § Registry-building 21/10/04 Leona Carpenter : DCC-URA 5
Advisory Services } Not only research data } “Ask- a-Curator” } FAQs, reports, briefings (for awareness-raising) } “Like ERPAnet” } Advise Government, RCs, funding bodies } Tools advice or toolkits 21/10/04 Leona Carpenter : DCC-URA 6
Professional Development } Short course § Certificate programme § In partnership with institution(s) § Or simply advising on set-up, content Conferences, seminars, workshops } Secondments } § to DCC § to working repositories 21/10/04 Leona Carpenter : DCC-URA 7
Research } Annotation services § To aid data integration § To support quality processes Ontology development framework } Metadata automation } § capturing provenance records } Computationally safe environments 21/10/04 Leona Carpenter : DCC-URA 8
Research Aid development of DFDL (Data Format Description Language) } Study benefits of data curation } § economic § scholarly } [… ] 21/10/04 Leona Carpenter : DCC-URA 9
Recommendations } Publish user interviews on the DCC site § An early win § Outreach agrees, interviewees agree } } Priority effort on Associates Network Priority effort on costings issue Priority effort on tools issue Priority effort on annotation research § Consider bringing forward ontology work? 21/10/04 Leona Carpenter : DCC-URA 10
