“Sometime in the 2010s, if all goes well, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will start to bring a vision of the heavens to Earth. Suspended between its vast mirrors will be a three billion-pixel sensor array, which on a clear winter night will produce 30 terabytes of data. In less than a week this remarkable telescope will map the whole night sky …. And then the next week it will do the same again … building up a database of billions of objects and millions of billions of bytes.”

Nature 440:383

Information Big Bang

The Fragility of Memory in a Digital Age

Report of the Task Force on Archiving of Digital InformationCommission on Preservation and Access and the Research Libraries Group

“In 1964, the first electronic mail message was sent from either MIT, the Carnegie Institute, or Cambridge University. The message does not survive, however, and so there is no documentary record to determine which group sent the pathbreaking message.”

NASA plans new search for missing moon tapes

Aug. 15, 2006, 5:13PM

Seth Borenstein, Associated Press

WASHINGTON —NASA said today it was launching an official search for more than 13,000 original tapes of the historic Apollo moon missions.

The Challenge

“If we are effectively to preserve for future generations the …. corpus of information in digital form that represents our cultural record, we need … to commit ourselves technically, legally, economically, and organizationally to the full dimensions of the task.”

Report of the Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information, 1996

NSF Draft Strategic Plan for Data, Data Analysis, and

Visualization

www.nsf.gov/od/oci/ci-v7.pdf

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Data Strategic Planning Group

• Sylvia Spengler (Chair)

• Deborah Crawford• Cheryl Eavey• James French• Chris Greer

• Elizabeth Lyons• David Lightfoot• Fillia Makedon• Jose Munoz• Dan Newlon• Nigel Sharp

Vision:

“… a vision in which science and engineering

digital data are routinely deposited in well-

documented form, are regularly and easily

consulted and analyzed by specialists and non-

specialists alike, are openly accessible while

suitably protected, and are reliably preserved.”

Goals:• To catalyze the development of a

system of science and engineering data collections that is open, extensible and evolvable.

• To support development of a new generation of tools and services facilitating data acquisition, mining, integration, analysis, and visualization.

Federal

State

Local

International

Non-profit

College

University

USER

Commercial

National DigitalData

Framework

User-centric, Multilevel, Nimble, Sustainable, Reliable

The Universities

“Ever since their inception, universities have been occupied with the fundamental elements of what we now call 'knowledge management', i.e. the creation, collection, preservation and dissemination of knowledge.”

A. Oosterlinck, Knowledge Management in Post-

Secondary Education: Universities

The Academic Libraries

“It is to the research library community that others will look for the preservation of … digital assets, as they have looked to us in the past for reliable, long-term access to the ‘traditional’ resources and products of research and scholarship.”

Association of Research Libraries (ARL)Strategic Plan 2005-2009

A Digital Repository for the Future?

Computer andInformation

Sciences

ArchivalSciences

CyberInfrastructure

DomainSciences

NSF Draft Strategic Plan for Data, Data Analysis, and

Visualization

www.nsf.gov/od/oci/ci-v7.pdf

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