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Long-Lived Data Collections: Enabling Digital Research and Education in the 21st Century

Home / Project Briefing Pages / CNI Spring 2005 Project Briefings / Long-Lived Data Collections: Enabling Digital Research and Education in the 21st Century

April 1, 2005

Chris L. Greer
Program Director
U.S. National Science Foundation

It is exceedingly rare that fundamentally new approaches to research and education arise. Information technology has ushered in such a fundamental change. Digital data collections are at the heart of this change. Through their very size and complexity, such digital collections provide new phenomena for study, enable analysis at unprecedented levels of accuracy and sophistication, and provide novel insights through innovative information integration. At the same time, such collections are a powerful force for inclusion, removing barriers to participation at all ages and levels of education.

The National Science Board recognizes the growing importance of these data collections for research and education, their potential for broadening participation in research at all levels, the ever increasing National Science Foundation investment in creating and maintaining the collections, and the rapid multiplication of collections with a potential for decades of curation. In response the Board formed the Long-Lived Data Collections Task Force. The Board and the task force undertook an analysis of the policy issues relevant to long-lived data collections. This briefing will summarize some of the findings arising from that analysis.

Web Links:
http://www.nsf.gov/nsb/

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Filed Under: CNI Spring 2005 Project Briefings, Digital Curation, E-Science, Repositories
Tagged With: CNI2005spring, Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions

Last updated:  Tuesday, April 30th, 2013

 

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