Geoscience data curation using a digital object model and open-source frameworks: Provenance applications

We find that software frameworks for digital content management and access may be used for capturing certain data provenance information, particularly for data that has already been created and archived at a repository center. One of the key enabling factors is the abstraction concept of a digital object augmented with semantic relationships. One set of frameworks, Fedora Repository and Drupal CMS with the Islandora connector hold great promise for provenance applications as well as long-term curation of Geoscience datasets.