Data Life Cycle Models

There are many variant data life cycle models that help frame discussions of the topic. Here are several that we find useful:

http://www.dataone.org/best-practices

http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/subjects/data-management/cycle.html

http://imageweb.zoo.ox.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/ADMIRAL_Data_Management_Plan_Template

https://www.lib.umn.edu/datamanagement/archiving