# Agile Data Curation Project ## Upcoming Events ### 2016-12 AGU - San Francisco, CA * [ESSI Section Sessions][3] * [Design Patterns Poster Abstract][4] - Thurs, 15 December 2016, 8 - 12:20 ### 12th International Digital Curation Conference * [IDCC 2017 Homepage][5] ## Past Events ### 2016-09 SciDataCon - Denver, CO *Agile Research Data Curation: Conceptual model, perspectives, and exemplars* - Sunday, September 11 - Tuesday, September 13 *Session Abstract* The development of agile software development principles, including test-driven development, and adoption of a variety of practices based upon those principles has produced significant improvements in the speed with which value is delivered to software users and the longer term sustainability of the software. In the science software context agile development practices also contribute to reproducibility. The agile development principles that have improved software development have potential, with modifications, for application to all phases of the research data lifecycle, to increase the efficiency of research data creation, management, documentation, preservation, discovery, access and reuse. Research and development of the conceptual model for agile data curation has been an active area of work for the session proposers, and as part of this work they have expanded the network of involved researchers engaged on the topic over the past 15 months to include contributors to sessions presented at the 2014 and 2015 American Geophysical Union Fall meeting and participants in the Fifth and Sixth Research Data Alliance Plenary meetings in 2015. Recently the team has developed a plan for building upon the collection of case studies presented as part of the above listed meetings by systematically collecting data management, preservation and sharing case studies from researchers in diverse Earth Science research and applications communities in an effort to identify common practices that are aligned with agile data curation principles (though perhaps not intentionally so). These case studies will then provide the basis for the development of agile data management design patterns that provide examples of data management processes that are consistent with the principles of agile data management. Through the identification of agile development design patterns it will be possible to 1) encourage the adoption of those design patterns in new data creation and management activities, and 2) provide a reference model against which practices may be compared, both in an effort to identify opportunities for greater efficiency and increased research data reusability and to recognize activities that have already achieved a high level of alignment with the principles and practices upon which the design patterns are based. This session will focus on papers that address three aspects of agile data management: the refinement of a modified set of principles that may be applied to the research data lifecycle, illustrations of alternative scientific data workflows that demonstrate these principles, and the case studies approach that is being developed by the session organizers to produce research data management design patterns that balance efficiency of in-project data management and effective data reuse long after the end of the project that created the data. The presenters that will be invited to contribute to the session include the session organizers who will present on the further work that they have done in systematically developing the principles of agile data curation using agile software curation as a point of reference; researchers from a variety of Earth science communities and projects with whom the session organizers have worked including one or more NSF Earth Cube research teams, the Geological Survey of Alabama, NASA, and members of the Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP Federation) - from whom alternative community visions of what constitutes agile data curation within their particular community or organizational context will be solicited; and the session organizers and key community members in presenting an initial template and samples of design patterns that will be developed as a product of the planned ongoing collection of case studies from an increasingly broad sample of research communities both within and outside the Earth sciences. ### 2016-09 RDA - Denver, CO *Session Abstract* *Planning meeting for Agile Data Curation Interest Group and Associated Working Group(s)* - Thursday, 15 Sept 2016, 16:00 - 17:30 The conteptual model for Agile Data Curation and associated planning and development of presentations, working group meetings, working documents, and planned tasks has been under development since 2014, including two RDA BOF sessions (Plenary 5 and 6) in which a broader community of RDA members contributed to the development efforts. The Collection of materials related to this initiative can be found within the project's publicly accessible [Open Science Framework sharing site](https://osf.io/8mtn3/) and within the group's public [GitHub repository](https://github.com/karlbenedict/agilecuration). Our growing bibliography of materials related to the development of our conceptual model can be found in our shared public [Zotero Library](https://www.zotero.org/groups/agile_data_curation). [RDA BOF Info][2] ### 2016-07 ESIP Federation Meeting - Durham, NC *Agile Data Curation in the Wild - What's Your Story* - Friday, July 22, 2016. [Session Information](http://commons.esipfed.org/node/9112) ## Background Materials [Mindmap View Only Link][1] [1]: https://mm.tt/560073152?t=R1jwg3b6Xm [2]: https://rd-alliance.org/agile-data-curation-rda-8th-plenary-bof-meeting [3]: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/meetingapp.cgi/Program/1176 [4]: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/199338 [5]: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/drupal/events/idcc17