Information Technology Reference
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Chapter 24
Infrastructure Roadmap
By the PARSE.Insight team, led by David Giaretta
You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.
(
Margaret Thatcher
)
This chapter is taken from the PARSE.Insight Roadmap [
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24.1 Requirements for a Science Data Infrastructure
We base the requirements for the preservation/re-use/access infrastructure on a
broad analysis of the threats and an initial set of solutions.
Threat
Requirements for solution
Users may be unable to understand or use
the data e.g. the semantics, format,
processes or algorithms involved
Ability to create and maintain adequate
representation information
Non-maintainability of essential hardware,
software or support environment may
make the information inaccessible
Ability to share information about the
availability of hardware and software and their
replacements/substitutes
The chain of evidence may be lost and
there may be lack of certainty of
provenance or authenticity
Ability to bring together evidence from diverse
sources about the authenticity of a digital object
Access and use restrictions may make it
difficult to reuse data, or alternatively may
not be respected in future
Ability to deal with digital rights correctly in a
changing and evolving environment
Loss of ability to identify the location of
data
An ID resolver which is really persistent
