Preservation Strategies: Sponsor or Institutional Requirements

Ronald WeaverNational Snow and Ice Data Center

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Overview

•Earth science data represent a significant public investment in research. We as producers of such data have an obligation to assure they are preserved appropriately.

•Sponsors, funding agencies, and host institutions have specific requirements for data preservation and they vary

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Institutional Groups

•Institutions requiring or encouraging preservation can be grouped as follows: •Federal Agencies: (NOAA, NASA, NSF, DOE, EPA etc.) typically well developed preservation guidelines and in some cases processes

•Host Institutions: (Universities etc.) are becoming more involved in data preservation and in many cases have preservation strategies in place

•Private Industry: generally have developed preservation strategies but typically only house proprietary data

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References and Resources

•Several websites offer links to more general data management plan development. We suggest starting with the following:• http://esip.esipfed.org/resources• Digital Curation Centre Plans (Useful checklist for developing a data management plan) http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/data-management-plans

• University of California Curation Center (Data Planning Checklist) http://www.cdlib.org/services/uc3/datamanagement/index.html

• Data Management and Publishing (MIT) http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/subjects/data-management/

• Data Management and Publishing (Univ of Minnesota)• http://www.lib.umn.edu/datamanagement/funding#What1

•Common internet search terms“data management plan”“earth science data management”

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