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# Data curation again
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/data-curation-again/
- Published: 2007-06-21T09:26:21.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-28T09:33:23.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Research ∕ Learning, Systems

I [mentioned](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001368.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net) the forthcoming report on data from Liz Lyon of UKOLN the other day. It has now appeared.

> Liz Lyon  
> **Dealing with Data: Roles, Rights, Responsibilities and Relationships – Consultancy Report**  
> \[[Word](https://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/e.j.lyon/reports/dealing%5Fwith%5Fdata%5Freport-final.doc?ref=lorcandempsey.net)\] \[[PDF](https://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/e.j.lyon/reports/dealing%5Fwith%5Fdata%5Freport-final.pdf?ref=lorcandempsey.net)\] ([Permalink](https://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/e.j.lyon/publications.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net#2007-06-19)) \[[UKOLN – staff – Dr Liz Lyon](https://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/e.j.lyon/publications.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net#2007-06-19)\]

Despite its UK focus, this report should make interesting reading more widely. It provides a useful overview of practice and policy across a variety of stakeholders: funders, nationally funded data centers, other policy bodies, local institutions. The environment is interesting given the range of national data centers, a situation which is not replicated everywhere else, and their relationship to research funding.  
It is provides some discussion of general issues and it contains an interesting table which helpfully proposes a set of stakeholder roles and suggests associated rights, responsibilities and relationships.  
Readers here may be interested in the following statement: “The polarisation of views regarding the role of institutional repositories for data was marked. ”  
The report emphasizes service and policy fragmentation and notes outstanding technical issues. However, it also shows an environment which is organizationally well-developed enough to be able to have discussions between major players about better coordination in these areas.  
Related entries:

[Data curation: a couple of things](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001368.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)