4. Boundaries and migration
Figure 1 shows two boundaries: the collaboration curation boundary and the
publication curation boundary. The use of the word curation is deliberate and reflects
the fact that the process of ongoing curation in the public domain relies on
provenance metadata that should have been captured during the research process.
However, the ongoing work of active curation will largely take place on the
publication side of the boundary. Researchers are not, in general, focussed on
curating their data. This is a task more suited to the professionals who will take
responsibility for the data in the publication domain.