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
The National Science Board (NSB) recognized the growing importance of digitaldata collections for research and education, their potential for broadening participation in research at all levels, the ever increasing National Science Foundation (NSF) 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 digital data collections. This report provides the findings and recommendations arising from that analysis.