IN21E:
Data-at-Risk: Identifying, Prioritizing, and Preserving for Future Generations

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Session ID#: 26591

Session Description:
Recent multiple grassroots initiatives gained significant momentum in duplicating US government agency data. These initiatives are inspired by reports that scientific data and documentation were removed from government websites, and by concerns over US proposals slashing scientific budgets. Reports of numerous "data rescue" and "guerrilla archiving" events focused on copying Earth science data generated and held by US federal agencies. Among the largest initiatives, Data Refuge, is led by librarians and scientists. A related project, Svalbard, teamed UC3, Data.gov, Internet Archive, and Code for Science for aggregating government data.

These initiatives can be better informed by development of agreed benchmarks to identify, define and communicate data-at-risk. Improved liaison with groups defining data preservation standards will improve prioritization and ensure that nationally significant datasets are properly preserved. This panel discussion will bring perspectives from Rescuers, Librarians and Repositories on successful preservation of data-at-risk in a collaborative environment.

Primary Convener:  David W Gallaher, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Nancy A Ritchey, National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC, United States, Lynn Yarmey, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States and Natalie K Meyers, University of Notre Dame, Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society, Notre Dame, IN, United States
Chairs:  David W Gallaher, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States and Nancy A Ritchey, National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Natalie K Meyers, University of Notre Dame, Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society, Notre Dame, IN, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • ED - Education
  • PA - Public Affairs
Index Terms:

1904 Community standards [INFORMATICS]
1912 Data management, preservation, rescue [INFORMATICS]
1930 Data and information governance [INFORMATICS]
1934 International collaboration [INFORMATICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Grassroots Organizing and Data Rescue (Invited) (298453)
Justin Schell, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Patching A Discontinuous Time Series: Is Time Travel Possible? (Invited) (211216)
Stephen C Diggs, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
Data Rescue Case Studies from the Cryosphere (Invited) (268514)
Florence M Fetterer, Univ Colorado, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States; National Snow and Ice Data Center, CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
Growing the Data Refuge Project into a Local Libraries+ Network Node (Invited) (243087)
Margaret Janz, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Collaborative Preservation of At-Risk Data at NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (Invited) (211905)
Kenneth S Casey, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Silver Spring, MD, United States, Donald Collins, National Centers for Environmental Information, Silver Spring, MD, United States, Jason M Cooper, National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, NC, United States and Nancy A Ritchey, NOAA/NESDIS/National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, NC, United States

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