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Are you interested in saving scientific data?
We invite you to contribute to an inventory of descriptions of (1) scientific data at-risk of permanent loss, and (2) descriptions of data rescue projects.
What is the Data-at-Risk Inventory?
The Data-at-Risk Inventory<http://www.ibiblio.org/data-at-risk/> (DARI) is an ongoing project of the Committee on Data for Science and Technology<http://www.codata.org/about/index.html> (CODATA) Data at Risk Task Group<http://ils.unc.edu/~janeg/dartg/> (DARTG) to create a catalog of scientific data that are at risk of being lost. DARI is a descriptive inventory of endangered data that are held by others, and an inventory of data rescue projects; it is not a repository for data. DARI is an implementation of DARTG's recognition that long-term observational scientific research depends on historical records.
What you can do to help:
DARI is looking for librarians, archivists, information custodians, data managers, scientists, researchers, and others who know of scientific data that could be at-risk, and are willing to contribute a description of that data to the inventory. We have also begun to document data rescue projects, and we are seeking descriptions of any known effort to preserve or rescue at-risk data.
How to contribute to the inventory:
1. Click on this link: http://www.ibiblio.org/data-at-risk/contribution
2. From the drop-down menu, select either "Data at Risk Inventory" or "Data Rescue Projects"
3. A form will appear into which you may enter information about at-risk data or about a rescue effort
4. Click on "Submit"
After the form is submitted, the DARI team will review it before it is made available to the web.
Thank you for your interest in this endeavor to preserve valuable scientific data!
Sincerely,
Erin Clary, Curator
Data at Risk Initiative, CODATA
Metadata Research Center, School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Email: darisils_at_gmail.com
Web: http://ils.unc.edu/mrc/dari/
Received on Tue Jul 16 2013 - 17:54:15 EDT