The role of OAIS representation information in the digital curation of crystallography data

Manjula Patel; Simon Coles; David Giaretta; Stephen Rankin; Brain McIlwrath

doi:10.1109/e-Science.2009.27

The role of OAIS representation information in the digital curation of crystallography data

Manjula Patel, Simon Coles, David Giaretta, Stephen Rankin, Brain McIlwrath

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Abstract

Reusable high quality data are emerging as the raw material of contemporary e-science. Large volumes of scientific data are now “born-digital” and need to be curated to facilitate use and reuse. Representation Information (RI) as defined by the OAIS Reference Model is increasingly recognised as being vital to the long term curation and preservation of meaningful and reliable digital data. This paper is concerned with an investigation of RI for crystallography data and its role in the curation, maintenance and management of such data. We describe how the explicit recording of relevant RI can facilitate long term access and maintain intelligibility of the Crystallographic Information File format (a critical file format in the crystallography domain).

Original language	English
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/e-Science.2009.27
Publication status	Published - Dec 2009
Event	IEEE eScience 2009 - Oxford, UK United Kingdom Duration: 9 Dec 2009 → 11 Dec 2009

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Conference	IEEE eScience 2009
Country/Territory	UK United Kingdom
City	Oxford
Period	9/12/09 → 11/12/09

Keywords

curation
OAIS reference model
preservation
crystallography data
representation information
digital curation
crystallography

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General Chemistry
General Computer Science

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