Blogs, research data and preservation

Skimming through an aggregation of JISCRI posts circulated by David Flanders, I noticed this mention of ArchivePress, which seems to be relevant to some of the goals of the research group in which Shuffl is being developed. Our interests are re-use and preservation of research data, most of which does not make its way into archival journals and is lost when the original researcher "moves on". ArchivePress is also about preservation of useful knowledge that doesn't make it into archival journals, and I'm thinking the ideas may be also applicable to data. Shuffl is part of an activity that attempts to make it easier to capture and share highly heterogeneous data from small research teams, but does not of itself address preservation. Can the acquisition of research data benefit from the journal pattern that underpins the operation of blogs? And as such, can data preservation build upon projects like ArchivePress? Factors in favour:

• Shuffl is already being designed to use Atom (via AtomPub), a format with its roots in representing blogs
• Research data is typically captured over a period of time
• The card metaphor used by Shuffl operates at a a level of granularity that is arguably comparable with a blog post

Factors (maybe) against:

• Shuffl is intended to allow progressive refinement of structure in data, both within and between data held on different cards - it is not clear now these refinements would be captured and navigated in a journal-like framework
• AchivePress seems to be WordPress-specific - I don't know if this is a problem

I think I need to be more sensitive to developments in the area of "data blogs" - I just tried to Google for that, and didn't immediately see anything very enlightening. Maybe the closest thing I've come across personally is http://timetric.com/, which was discussed at a recent Oxford Geek Nights session. Maybe myExperiment and related work has something to offer, though it appears to be very workflow-oriented? I'm sure there's more.