Digital Data Preservation for Scholarly Publications in Astronomy
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Date
2007-11
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Publisher
International Journal of Digital Curation
Abstract
Astronomy is similar to other scientific disciplines in that scholarly publication relies on the
presentation and interpretation of data. But although astronomy now has archives for its primary
research telescopes and associated surveys, the highly processed data that is presented in the peer-
reviewed journals and is the basis for final analysis and interpretation is generally not archived and
has no permanent repository. We have initiated a project whose goal is to implement an end-to-end
prototype system which, through a partnership of a professional society, that society’s scholarly
publications/publishers, research libraries, and an information technology substrate provided by the
Virtual Observatory, will capture high-level digital data as part of the publication process and
establish a distributed network of curated, permanent data repositories. The data in this network
will be accessible through the research journals, astronomy data centers, and Virtual Observatory
data discovery portals.
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Keywords
Virtual Observatory, Astronomy, Digital Data Preservation
Citation
Sayeed Choudhury, Tim DiLauro, Alex Szalay, Ethan Vishniac, Robert Hanisch, Robert Milkey, Teresa Ehling and Ray Plante.