The success of eScience research depends not only upon effective
collaboration between scientists and technologists but also upon
the active involvement of information scientists. Archivists rarely
receive scientific data until findings are published, by which time
important information about their origins, context, and
provenance may be lost. Research reported here addresses the
lifecycles of data from ecological research with embedded
networked sensing technologies. A better understanding of these
processes will enable information scientists to participate in
earlier stages of the life cycle and to improve curation of these
types of scientific data. Evidence from our interview study and
field research yields a nine lifecycle phases, and three types of
lifecycle depending on the research goal. Findings include
highlighting the impact of collaboration on the research processes
and potential phases during which the integrity of the captured
data is compromised