On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Greenberg, Jane <janeg_at_email.unc.edu> wrote:
> **Pardon cross-postings, please feel free to forward**
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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.
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> What you can do to help:
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> 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.
Why just data, the manuals for the equipment used are important too so
you can get an idea of data accuracy
I keep manuals http://www.collection.archivist.info
Dave Caroline
Received on Wed Jul 17 2013 - 03:30:47 EDT