What is collaborative maintenance?

When individuals, organisations and communities work together to collect and maintaining shared data assets this is described as collaborative data maintenance.

What is collaborative data maintenance?

When individuals, organisations and communities work together to share the work of collecting and maintaining shared data assets this is described as ‘collaborative data maintenance’.

When is collaborative maintenance useful?

Collaborative data maintenance has been successfully used in a wide variety of projects. Looking at successful projects helps identify some common characteristics and challenges.

An example project

To help illustrate how a dataset might be collaboratively maintained we have created an example based on a fictional project.

The pattern catalogue

Our pattern catalogue provides guidance on how to design and build products and services that use collaborative maintenance

Glossary

To ensure we cover a range of project styles, tools and methodologies, we use the following general terms across this website.

About patterns

“Once is chance, twice is a coincidence, three times is a pattern”

Pattern Catalogue

Browse through the following categories to find repeatable solutions to commonly encountered problems