Nature: Researchers launch hunt for endangered data

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

Nature: Researchers launch hunt for endangered data
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101102/full/468017a.html

In Canada the story is the same.  Research data have no home once collected, state funded research data are not archived, Library and Archives Canada does not have a data repository.  We have a small network of repositories in some research libraries in Canada but these primarily ingest research papers and not so much the data.  Funding agencies do not mandate data management except for the International Polar Year (IPY) project - http://www.ipy-api.gc.ca/pg_IPYAPI_052-eng.html.
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Tracey P. Lauriault
613-234-2805

[Glen Newton]

Yes, this is excellent news!

This initiative was supported by the Canadian National Committee for
CODATA (http://www.codata.org/canada/) [I am a CNC/CODATA committee
member]. One of the drivers behind this project (Elizabeth Griffith)
is a Canadian:
"The inventory is the brainchild of Elizabeth Griffin, an astronomer
at the [NRC] Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Victoria, Canada,
and William Anderson, an information specialist at the University of
Texas at Austin and an associate editor of the Data Science Journal.
Both will serve on the task group with ten other scientists. "

CNC/CODATA is always looking for individuals and organizations for
collaboration, and participation at our annual meeting. If you are
interested, please contact me or John Broome (Chair) or Mary Zborowski
(Executive Secretary) [hidden email]

Glen Newton
http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/
Scientific Digital Archiving & Software Consultant

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Tracey P. Lauriault <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Nature: Researchers launch hunt for endangered data
> http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101102/full/468017a.html
>
> In Canada the story is the same.  Research data have no home once collected,
> state funded research data are not archived, Library and Archives Canada
> does not have a data repository.  We have a small network of repositories in
> some research libraries in Canada but these primarily ingest research papers
> and not so much the data.  Funding agencies do not mandate data management
> except for the International Polar Year (IPY) project -
> http://www.ipy-api.gc.ca/pg_IPYAPI_052-eng.html.
> --
> Tracey P. Lauriault
> 613-234-2805
>
>
>
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