Greetings, all.
We've been funded, for the last year or so, to study the way that ‘big science’ projects manage and distribute their data, and to make recommendations for how they should preserve this into the future. This has culminated in a report which describes the way this is managed now (it's rather different from the way it's managed in other areas), some of the case for data preservation, and an account of the practicalities and costs of managing data on this scale.
This report is now available in draft, and we welcome all comments. We are particularly interested in comments on the recommendations that we make. Are they practical? Should they be more specific? Do they cover our remit appropriately?
The end of the MRD-GW project is imminent, and the report will be finalised towards the end of March. If you can get comments to us by, say, 14 March, we'll be able to incorporate them into the final version.
The report is located at
http://purl.org/nxg/projects/mrd-gw/report
Please quote this URL rather than the one it resolves to, as the document it resolves to may change and not all versions will be immediately public (it's complicated). At the time of posting, that document is version 6 of the report.
Do pass on the URL. Thanks for any thoughts.
Best wishes,
Norman
[MRD-GW blog at http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/projects/mrd-gw/blog/feed.atom]
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Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK
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