DuraSpace Receives Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Grant to Develop Cloud Services for Data Management and Archiving | DuraSpace

"DuraSpace announced today that their organization has been awarded a 2-year, $861,000 grant from The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. The grant is in support of extending the DuraCloud services (http://www.duracloud.org) an online cloud based service, for the long term preservation and stewardship of research and other scholarly content. Currently, DuraCloud provides a reliable way to preserve and archive research materials in the cloud, a solution developed within the academic community for academic institutions. During the next phase of DuraCloud development, additional applications, features, and services will be built to extend the cloud in order to facilitate data archiving and content management. DuraSpace offers DuraCloud as a software as a service that enables archiving, preserving, and managing institutional content using cloud storage and intends to expand its service offerings in the next phase of development. WHY ACCESS TO SCHOLARLY RESEARCH DATA COUNTS ...  Look no further than the glass of Malbec you enjoyed with dinner last night to understand why preservation and access to original research data is critical to ongoing scholarship. The popular media began extolling moderate red wine consumption when a 2006 study linked red wine to certain health benefits [4]. As late as March 2011 the top-rated Mayo Clinic [1] published an article explaining that Resveratrol, an ingredient found in red wine, might help prevent damage to blood vessels, reduce bad cholesterol and prevent blood clots.[2] Early in 2012 University of Connecticut officials announced that an internal review had found 145 instances over seven years in which a University of Connecticut researcher falsified data to show that the Resveratrol found in red wine promoted longevity and well-being.[3] [5] Published research results fanned by the flames of media and social networks have the power to quickly influence public health and public policy. To prove that scientific claims are true researchers must be able to run the same experiments with the same data and show the same results each time. Original data must be actively preserved to guard against fraudulent results. DuraCloud (http://duracloud.org) will enable additional services to help future scholars and researchers keep research data safe and accessible for the public good."