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I've been searching for a way to articulate my concerns with the
Lifecycle document, and still haven't found it; the way to
articulate it, I mean. <br>
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So, I'll just charge ahead. I don't think these ideas can be of
much effect on the document itself, since I'm so late to the party,
but perhaps by putting it in front of the group, others can make
better use of them than I. <br>
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I'm concerned that we are serving two masters without recognizing
the driving and not necessarily congruent interests of those two:<br>
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First, we've been told that the impetus for the 'lifecycle' document
came from work items or expected tasking in contracts where the <b>contracting
agency </b>wanted to ensure that they could, with confidence, be
assured that all relevant data related to a funded activity would be
available for them to review and reuse. <br>
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Second, I've an internal (institutional) bias, which I believe I
share with those on this list, toward supporting the goal of
meeting the needs of the <b>Designated Community</b>, which may be
but probably isn't the same as the contracting agency. <br>
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Now, the purpose and body of the Lifecycle document is clearly
slanted toward the first constituency. For example, the lifecycle
elements are, as already noted by Don, John, and several others,
more typical of a project lifecycle than a data or information
lifecycle. I had accepted an action to review and offer
suggestions to improve Chapter 5 and it's associated table. I
propose that the table should be recast to more properly reflect a
Generic Data Lifecycle that accommodates longterm, potentially
unending, data generation environments as well as situations where
data lifecycle management is associated with and punctuated by
short-term project level goals. The generic data lifecycle
emphasizes the data operations leading from initial or conceptual
planning for data collection or generation, through to explicit
freezing of a data package and final disposition. <br>
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<h3>Generic Data Lifecycle<br>
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Conceptualization->Origination->Availment->Processing->Packaging->Curation
and Disposition<br>
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