Open Data and Preservation | The Signal: Digital Preservation
abernard102@gmail.com 2013-05-11
Summary:
The documents provide guidance on open licensing, metadata, and standards, as well as lifecycle-based information stewardship. But what I personally keep struggling with are two questions: What IS open data? And how is is being preserved? The project has some defining principles for open data that I think can inform any dataset preservation project ... I am thrilled to see guidance about active management of datasets and supporting users in their work with the data. But what could be available for this and all open dataset projects is more attention on dataset preservation. These are a few of some great resources on this topic: [1] The Library of Congress Sustainability of Digital Formats site on datasets [2] A Report on the Preservation of Public Sector Datasets from Archives New Zealand [3] Open Data and Archiving Datasets from the National Archives UK [4] DataONE [5] Data-PASS [6] DataConservancy [7] Life of a Dataset from ICPSR [8] Best Practices for Archival Processing for Geospatial Datasets from the GeoMAPP Project [9] Datasets, Issues, Contexts and Solutions from the Open Planets Foundation..."