The data acquisition, accessibility, annotation and e-Research technologies (DART) project: supporting the complete e-Research lifecycle

The DART Project undertook a coordinated program of e-Research requirements analysis, software development, policy and guideline creation and prototyping to investigate how best to: (1) collect, capture and retain large data sets and streams from a range of different sources; (2) deal with the infrastructural issues of scale, sustainability and interoperability between repositories; (3) support deposit into, access to, and annotation by a range of actors, to a set of digital libraries which include publications, datasets, simulations (data and model), software and dynamic knowledge representations; (4) assist researchers in dealing with intellectual property issues during the research process; (5) adopt next-generation methods for research publication, dissemination and access. The DART project completed in June 2007. This paper presents an overview of the project, describes some of the issues encountered and lessons learned in solving some of these goals, and describes further work now underway. Contributors: UK e-Science 2007 all hands meeting [2007 : Nottingham, United Kingdom] ; Coverage: Rights: