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

Citation

National Science Board, Long-Lived Digital Data Collections: Enabling Research and Education in the 21st Century (Sept. 2005) (full-text).

Overview

This report, prepared by the U.S. National Science Board, provides the findings and recommendations arising from an analysis of the policy issues relevant to long-lived digital data collections. The primary purpose of this report is to frame the issues and to begin a broad discourse on the current National Science Foundation (NSF) policies that lead to NSF funding of a large number of data collections with an indeterminate lifetime and to ask what deliberate strategies will best serve the multiple research and education communities.