Data Curation: The Evolution of Data Products for Value and Reach

Abstract:

While often not explicitly addressed as part of the data curation process, we describe two examples of what might well be termed agile curation. Two collections of polar data products developed over decades inform development of a model demonstrating how events often create new user communities. We demonstrate how data products and designated communities co-evolve. The interaction of data repositories and communities is detailed and described as a multi-cycle trajectory. This account of existing data practices illustrates the responsiveness of a subject-based repository to community needs. It contributes to discussions of the work associated with data production, work needed to support emergent understandings of cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary data interoperability.