@inproceedings{4f44ca35614847cca665fda88191a4ce,
title = "Towards sustainable curation and preservation: The SEAD project's data services approach",
abstract = "When the effort to curate and preserve data is made at the end of a project, there is little opportunity to leverage ongoing research work to reduce curation costs or conversely, to leverage curation efforts to improve research productivity. In the Sustainable Environment Actionable Data (SEAD) project, we have envisioned a more active approach to data curation and preservation in which these processes occur in parallel with research and generate sufficient short and long-term return on researcher investments for self-interest to drive their adoption. In this paper, we describe the conceptual framework motivating the SEAD project and the suite of data services we have developed and deployed as an initial implementation of this approach. Use cases in which these services can reduce curation effort and aid ongoing research are highlighted and, based on our experience to date, we identify some key architectural features of our approach as well as open challenges to fully realizing the value of this approach in the broad ecosystem of cyberinfrastructure.",
keywords = "Content management, Data curation, Data preservation, Research productivity, Semantic web, Web services",
author = "James Myers and Margaret Hedstrom and Dharma Akmon and Sandy Payette and Plale, \{Beth A.\} and Inna Kouper and Scott McCaulay and Robert McDonald and Isuru Suriarachchi and Aravindh Varadharaju and Praveen Kumar and Mostafa Elag and Jong Lee and Rob Kooper and Luigi Marini",
note = "This research was funded by the National Science Foundation under cooperative agreement \#OCI0940824. The authors acknowledge the efforts of the broader SEAD project team (http://sead-data.net/about/sead-team/), past and present, in developing, deploying, and supporting SEAD{\textquoteright}s data services. The authors also gratefully acknowledge the efforts of SEAD{\textquoteright}s collaborators, including the National Center for Earth Surface Dynamics (NCED), repository partners including the libraries at Indiana University and the University of Illinois and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research at the University of Michigan, and SEAD{\textquoteright}s early adopters who have provided invaluable guidance and feedback.; 11th IEEE International Conference on eScience, eScience 2015 ; Conference date: 31-08-2015 Through 04-09-2015",
year = "2015",
month = oct,
day = "22",
doi = "10.1109/eScience.2015.56",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings - 11th IEEE International Conference on eScience, eScience 2015",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "485--494",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 11th IEEE International Conference on eScience, eScience 2015",
address = "United States",
}