Presented at FORCE2018 Conference, Montreal, Canada, October 10-12, 2018. FORCE: Future of Research Communications and e-ScholarshipAt domain-specific data repositories, curation that strives for FAIR principles often entails transforming data submissions to
improve understanding and reuse. The Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO,
https://www.bco-dmo.org) has been adopting the data containerization specification of the Frictionless Data project
(https://frictionlessdata.io) in an effort to improve its data curation process efficiency. In doing so, BCO-DMO has been using the
Frictionless Data Package Pipelines library (https://github.com/frictionlessdata/datapackage-pipelines) to define the processing
steps that transform original submissions to final data products. Because these pipelines are defined using a declarative language
they can be serialized into formal provenance data structures using the Provenance Ontology (PROV-O,
https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/). While there may still be some curation steps that cannot be easily automated, this method is
a step towards reproducible transforms that bridge the original data submission to its published state in machine-actionable ways
that benefit the research community through transparency in the data curation process.NSF #143557
