User:Lwarres/sandbox

Data curation
Grammatically, "Data curation is typically user initiated and maintains metadata rather than the database itself" should be "The user, rather than the database itself, typically initiates data curation and maintains metadata."

History
I think the history of data curation began much earlier than the 1982 date cited:

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) 1960s

For example, census data has been available in tabulated punch card form since the early 20th century. It has been electronic since the 1960s.
 * Yes, this is good to add in some additional perspective on the background. You'll find a bit on the ICPSR history page. For at least a basic citation on the census data and that story, check on the Preserving Digital Information (PDI) report, 1996, pp 2-3. You should also think about adding in something about the crises in space data, which led to the creation of the OAIS model (that's why it is stewarded by the CCSDS); eg, there's articles like "The Hackers who Recovered NASA's Lost Lunar Photos in Wired (April 23, 2014) and "Lost on Earth" NYTimes, March 20, 1990. You can probably find more useful ones, but a few for a start.

OAIS

what institutions have shaped data curation's history and development and intellectual foundations?

History & Development, Intellectual Foundations, Data Curation + Digital Preservation = Digital Curation?
 * These are good. They may be the same section. You'll need to find a source that you can point to. One may be the background of ICPSR, try to identify a few more, too. Check the books by Christine Borgman, perhaps, as a starting point.

Digital Preservation
"It is a difficult and critical process because the remaining selected records will shape researchers' understanding of that body of records, or fonds" should simply be "The remaining selected records will shape researchers' understanding of that body of records, or fonds."

Articles I want to work on

 * 1) Community Archives
 * 2) Data Curation
 * 3) Digital Preservation