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White House working group releases strategy for sharing/preserving digital scientific data
Colleagues,
As reported in Government Computer News ... An interagency working group has recommended that the United States develop a strategic policy for preserving and making scientific information accessible in a world in which data increasingly is born, stored and used in digital formats...The report, titled “Harnessing the Power of Digital Data for Science and Society,” calls for development of interagency and agency-specific policies for the management of data produced by or for government throughout its life cycle
Characteristics of the current digital data landscape are described in the report as:
* The starting points for new research increasingly are digital and their products increasingly are born digital.
* Innovations in digital technology are driving the exploding volumes and rising demand for data.
* All sectors of society are stakeholders in digital preservation and access.
* A comprehensive framework for cooperation to manage the preservation of digital data is missing.
The goal of the report’s recommendations is to bring together the increasing volumes of digital data with the people who will be using and taking advantage of it. It lays out a vision and a strategy for achieving it. The vision is to “create a comprehensive framework of transparent, evolvable, extensible policies and management and organizational structures that provide reliable, effective access to the full spectrum of public digital scientific data...
Read on at: http://gcn.com/Articles/2009/03/25/NSTC-report-digital-data.aspx?s=...
ENJOY!
CC
As reported in Government Computer News ... An interagency working group has recommended that the United States develop a strategic policy for preserving and making scientific information accessible in a world in which data increasingly is born, stored and used in digital formats...The report, titled “Harnessing the Power of Digital Data for Science and Society,” calls for development of interagency and agency-specific policies for the management of data produced by or for government throughout its life cycle
Characteristics of the current digital data landscape are described in the report as:
* The starting points for new research increasingly are digital and their products increasingly are born digital.
* Innovations in digital technology are driving the exploding volumes and rising demand for data.
* All sectors of society are stakeholders in digital preservation and access.
* A comprehensive framework for cooperation to manage the preservation of digital data is missing.
The goal of the report’s recommendations is to bring together the increasing volumes of digital data with the people who will be using and taking advantage of it. It lays out a vision and a strategy for achieving it. The vision is to “create a comprehensive framework of transparent, evolvable, extensible policies and management and organizational structures that provide reliable, effective access to the full spectrum of public digital scientific data...
Read on at: http://gcn.com/Articles/2009/03/25/NSTC-report-digital-data.aspx?s=...
ENJOY!
CC
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