# DATA CURATION AND PRESERVATION - [Introduction](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/introduction.md): This section uses the OAIS principles as a guide to planning and using LABDRIVE to ingest, preserve and use digitally encoded information. - [Information Lifecycles](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/information-lifecycles.md): This page describes the important steps in the creation, (re-)use and preservation of information. - [Collecting Information needed for Re-Use and Preservation](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/collecting-information-needed-for-re-use-and-preservation.md): In order to be able to (re-)use information and preserve information, appropriate information should be collected as soon as possible during its planning and creation, before it is forgotten or lost. - [Planning and Using Additional Information in LABDRIVE](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/planning-and-using-additional-information-in-labdrive.md) - [How to deal with Additional Information](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/how-to-deal-with-additional-information.md): This section described how to deal with all the other types of Additional Information, which is encoded as Data Objects. - [Representation Information](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/how-to-deal-with-additional-information/representation-information.md) - [Provenance Information](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/how-to-deal-with-additional-information/provenance-information.md): Provenance information is important if one is to be able to reproduce the object's creation and processing. - [Context Information](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/how-to-deal-with-additional-information/context-information.md): This page describes some examples of Context Information. - [Reference Information](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/how-to-deal-with-additional-information/reference-information.md) - [Descriptive Information](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/how-to-deal-with-additional-information/descriptive-information.md): Descriptive Information allows users to locate information of potential interest, analyze that information, and order desired information. - [Packaging Information](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/how-to-deal-with-additional-information/packaging-information.md): This is the information that describes how the components of an Information Package are logically or physically bound together and how to identify and extract the components. - [Definition of the Designated Community(ies)](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/how-to-deal-with-additional-information/definition-of-the-designated-community-ies.md) - [Preservation Objectives](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/how-to-deal-with-additional-information/preservation-objectives.md) - [Transformational Information Properties](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/how-to-deal-with-additional-information/transformational-information-properties.md) - [Preservation Activities](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/preservation-activities.md): OAIS identifies the general types of activities needed to preserve information as things, such as technology, environment, tacit knowledge, change. - [Adding Representation Information](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/preservation-activities/adding-representation-information.md): As technology, environment and tacit knowledge change, the bits in the digital object may not be usable/understandable. Extra Representation Information can overcome such changes. - [Semantic Representation Information](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/preservation-activities/adding-representation-information/semantic-representation-information.md): The Representation Information that further describes the meaning of the Data Object, and its parts or elements, beyond that provided by the Structure Representation Information. - [Structural Representation Information](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/preservation-activities/adding-representation-information/structural-representation-information.md): This page describes a number of ways in which Structural Representation Information may be created. - [Other Representation Information](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/preservation-activities/adding-representation-information/other-representation-information.md): A type of Representation Information which cannot easily be classified as Structure Representation Information or Semantic Representation Information. It is a type of Information Object. - [Software as part of the RIN](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/preservation-activities/adding-representation-information/other-representation-information/software-as-part-of-the-rin.md): Software is an important type of "Other Representation Information". It will require its own RepInfo and will itself need to be preserved. - [Preserving simple software](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/preservation-activities/adding-representation-information/other-representation-information/software-as-part-of-the-rin/preserving-simple-software.md): Some software is relatively simple, for example single applications running on a single computer. - [Jupyter Notebooks as Other RepInfo](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/preservation-activities/adding-representation-information/other-representation-information/software-as-part-of-the-rin/preserving-simple-software/method-2-interactive-computational-notebooks-jupyther-notebooks.md) - [Preserving complex software](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/preservation-activities/adding-representation-information/other-representation-information/software-as-part-of-the-rin/preserving-complex-software.md): By complex software is meant software which currently requires many computers and is made up of many separate software applications, some of which may be relatively simple. - [Emulation/Virtualisation](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/preservation-activities/adding-representation-information/other-representation-information/software-as-part-of-the-rin/preserving-complex-software/emulation-virtualisation.md): Preservation of more complex software systems must consider the operating system and various pieces of hardware. - [Virtual machines as Other RepInfo](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/preservation-activities/adding-representation-information/other-representation-information/software-as-part-of-the-rin/preserving-complex-software/emulation-virtualisation/method-3-emulation-i.e.-true-emulation-virtualization-and-containerization.md): Virtual machines (VMs) can provide independence from specific hardware and software, but the VMs must themselves be preserved. - [Docker and other containers as Other RepInfo](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/preservation-activities/adding-representation-information/other-representation-information/software-as-part-of-the-rin/preserving-complex-software/emulation-virtualisation/containers-dockers.md) - [Use of ReproZip](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/preservation-activities/adding-representation-information/other-representation-information/software-as-part-of-the-rin/preserving-complex-software/method-4-migration-1.md) - [Transforming the Digital Object](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/preservation-activities/transforming-the-digital-object.md) - [Handing over to another archive](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/preservation-activities/handing-over-to-another-archive.md) - [Reproducing research](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/reproducing-research.md): The ability to verify results by re-doing experiments (observational, physical or computational) is fundamental to science. This page discusses how LABDRIVE supports this. - [Exploiting preserved information](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/exploiting-preserved-information.md): This page discusses various ways in which LABDRIVE supports the exploitation of preserved information. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. 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