However just the act of submission to checking by "the authorities" prompted a sense of unease.
First, curation requires dedicated people to gather all the necessary information for new submission, or to check and complete user submissions.
We have modified an iRODS system rule for file management after submission, called acPostProcessForPut, to check file integrity and automatically manage replication of data on the two resources for all the files saved in iRODS using the Digital Biobank portal.
Check the date of submission: You need to check as to by what date you have to submit your dissertation and whether or not any flexibility is allowed.
Google uses a small army of volunteers and its own moderators to check all submissions before they go live, and whoever checked this one apparently thought the submission was correct.
However, even with a well-designed annotation tool, registries are still likely to require some central curation for validating submitted data (e.g. the DDF tool allows administrator level access to check new submissions).
If you want to submit some work that you've already written, or find an online venue for a writing project that you're thinking of undertaking, there are several resources in place for writers to check for submissions calls.
Test submissions could be submitted pre-deadline to check for issues; any post-deadline problems were resolved prior to the release of the solutions.
You'll probably want to check out previous submissions before designing your own (there are some photos on the website) to see what's possible -- a lot, given the guidelines. .
Secondly, the shortage of curators to check and annotate submissions to public repositories a situation unlikely to change soon necessitates better annotation at source (by experimentalists or community-based efforts; Howe et al., 2008).
