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| Lifecycle Functions | Definition |
|---|---|
| Academic Social Networking | Tools that support making connections, sharing research and maximising the impact of digital data. |
| Access | Tools that facilitate access to digital data by users. |
| Active Data Storage | Tools that support the storage, management, and ultimately the preservation, of evolving research data. |
| Annotation | Tools that facilitate annotation of digital data by users. |
| Appraisal | Tools that enable the assessment of content against in order to decide on it's relevance or appropriateness for preservation |
| Backup | Tools that support the backing up of digital data to another storage location, typically in a scheduled manner. |
| Benefits | Tools that enable the identification and articulation of the benefits of preservation and curation. |
| Binary & Hexidecimal Editing | Tools for viewing and editing of files displayed in different views such as binary, hexadecimal. These are typically known as hex editors. |
| Citation and Impact Tracking | Tools that support the citation of data and the tracking of the impact of usage of that data. |
| Content Profiling | Tools that build a profile of the characteristics of digital content, typically by combining or analysing a number of sources of information such as extracted metadata and file format identifications. |
| Costing | Tools that support the calculation or prediction of the cost of preservation or curation activities. |
| Data Management Planning | Tools that support the development of research data management plans and related activities. |
| Data capture and Deposit | Tools that enable the capture and deposit of data. |
| De-Duplication | Tools that enable the identification and/or removal of duplicate or similar files. |
| Decryption | Tools for recovering passwords or unlocking encrypted digital files. |
| Dependency Analysis | Tools for identifying essential information that resides externally to a digital object, or for identifying dependent processes such as which DLLs are required by a Windows process. |
| Discovery | Tools that facilitate the discovery of digital data by users. |
| Disk Imaging | Tools that enable the capture, viewing or extraction of contents of a disk image (which is a computer file containing the contents and structure of a disk volume or an entire data storage device, such as a hard drive or floppy disk). |
| Emulation | Tools that enable the emulation or virtualisation of a hardware or software system on another system. |
| Encryption Detection | Tools that support the detection of encryption or password protection in files. |