1. PresQT - Preservation Quality Tool
Zheng (John) Wang, Sandra Gesing, Richard Johnson and Natalie Meyers
1 May 2017
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2. Motivation Hesburgh Libraries
Researchers often respond reluctantly and retroactively to funder and publisher mandates for data and software sharing.
Depositing data can be quite labor intensive.
Metadata enhancement, provenance reconstruction, reformatting and data documentation efforts can present significant barriers to timely and complete data sharing.
Curators engaged near the end of the research life cycle often receive incomplete metadata, at-risk formats, and a paucity of data documentation.
Reuse and reproducibility are jeopardized.
 PresQT bridges gaps between existing digital library infrastructure, repositories and software reuse.
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3. Current Lifecycle of Research Projects
Selection/development of tools
Data assembling/creating
Reports
Preservation of
Data
Funding ends
New project
Work-intensive and
too late in the lifecycle
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4. Target Lifecycle of Research Projects
Selection/development of tools
Data assembling/creating
Reports
Preservation of
Data
Funding ends
New project
Assure quality
of data
Assure quality
of data
EASY STEP!!!
(ideally)
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5. PresQT Hesburgh Libraries
A planning grant funded effort to address needs for preserving data and software. The goal is to collaboratively design interoperable and repository agnostic Data and Software Preservation Quality Tools. Funding Partner
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8. Goal Open design of a quality tool library using standards
Library can be integrated with workflow engines, tools and containers
 Everyone can take it for writing proposals building on this work and implementing it!
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9. Collaborative Effort Hesburgh Libraries
Where we are now – there are many ways for you to contribute & benefit
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10. Timeline Hesburgh Libraries
Where we are now – there are many ways for you to contribute & benefit
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11. Your Participation in Our Grant
Through this workshop and other activities…
Gather and share information on landscape and strategies
Inform design and development of tool(s) and workflows
Propose and devise workflows utilizing existing and new tools and modes of interoperation
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12. Participation - Here and Now!
This is an open grant…
Materials related to this workshop and other activities will be published in the PresQT OSF
You will get an invitation to the project component (i.e. sub-project) for this workshop
Please upload your presentations there before you present
If run into any issues, coordinate through me (Rick Johnson)
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13. PresQT OSF Project: https://osf.io/d3jx7/

14. PresQT Workshop 1: https://osf.io/tejhs/

15. PresQT Workshop 1: https://osf.io/view/PresQT1/

16. PresQT Workshop 1: https://osf.io/view/PresQT1/

17. Participation – What You Can Upload
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18. Review our Schedule Hesburgh Libraries
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19. https://presqt.crc.nd.edu/
Thank you!
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