Preserving scientific digital data and ensuring its continued access
About
Preserving scientific digital data has emerged as a major initiative for both funding agencies and academic institutions. Digital preservation, the study of the processes, organizations, and technologies needed to maintain scientific digital data over time, is a multidisciplinary field that draws on the literature from informatics/computer science, library and information science, and domain sciences such a biology, geology, and environmental sciences.
Our agenda
The Data to Insight Center, at the core of its mission, maintains a robust digital preservation research agenda that includes such topics as:
- data management
- data lifecycles
- data curation
- preservation technologies
- metadata for ongoing access, provenance, and preservation
- formats
- data preservation policy development