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. 2017 Mar 16;12(3):e0173987. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0173987

Table 9. The comparison of the IR curation activities to the DCC Curation Lifecycle Model.

DCC Full Lifecycle Actions
Description and representation of information
Preservation planning
Community watch & participation
Curate and preserve
DCC Sequential Actions
Conceptualize Create or receive Appraise and select Ingest Preservation action Store Access, use, and reuse Transform
IR Curation Activities
Understanding data curation needs
 Interviewing researchers x
 Consulting with researchers x x x x x x x x
 Communicating with IR or library staff x x
Managing and sharing data
 Receiving or transferring data files x
 Cleaning data x
 Converting data to a different file format x
 Developing and adding metadata x
 Validating data x
 Packaging data x x
 Uploading and publishing data into IR x
Ensuring that data is accessible and reusable
 Annotating data for relevant entities x x
 Optimizing data to search engine x
 Keeping data up to date in mirror repository x x x
Re-evaluating data for long term preservation
 Selecting dataset for long term preservation x x