Preserving the Data Harvest

"[P]hysicists report that older data sets have been getting harder and harder to access....For particle physicists, it’s a surprising place to be; the field has been at the forefront of information technology and open access for decades....“There are voices saying that this will never be possible for high-energy physics,” says H1 Spokesperson and DPHEP Chair Cristinel Diaconu. “It is very complicated, but it is not impossible. We have to just aim toward some form of open access and see how far we can get.” "