Rescuing and recovering lost or endangered data

This paper summarizes the vital importance to the scientific community of rescuing historic scientific data, presently in various informal, non-digital formats, from likely oblivion and making them accessible digitally for trend analyses. It proposes models whereby historic biodiversity and astronom...

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Main Author: Elizabeth Griffin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ubiquity Press 2006-01-01
Series:Data Science Journal
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Online Access:http://datascience.codata.org/articles/354
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Summary:This paper summarizes the vital importance to the scientific community of rescuing historic scientific data, presently in various informal, non-digital formats, from likely oblivion and making them accessible digitally for trend analyses. It proposes models whereby historic biodiversity and astronomical data can be recovered as Canadian initiatives, in the hope of stimulating further discussion of such simple yet essential rescue missions in the context of Canadian scientific research.
ISSN:1683-1470