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Library Resources & Technical Services 52, no. 1 (2008): Includes "Converting and Preserving the Scholarly Record: An Overview," "Mass Digitization: Implications for Preserving the Scholarly Record," and other articles.

"Long-term preservation and stewardship of scientific data and research-related information are vitally important to future science and scholarship. Scientific data archives can offer capabilities for managing and preserving disciplinary and interdisciplinary data for research, education, and decision-making activities of future communities of users. Meeting the requirements for a trusted digital repository will help to ensure that today's collections of scientific data will be available in the future. A continuing self-assessment of a long-term archive for interdisciplinary scientific data is being conducted to identify the additional steps needed for it to become a trustworthy repository. Recommendations include a strategy for collaborative organizational sustainability, a model for submission and workflow to ingest interdisciplinary scientific data into a repository, and a plan for facilitating intra-organizational transfer between repositories."

article by Mercè Crosas, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, Harvard. Demonstrates application's utility for data sharing, preservation, permanence, interoperability, ease of use and maintenance, among other considerations

the Memento Project led by Herbert Van De Sompel adds a time stamp to web pages and allows searching with time preferences.

Research Data Access and Preservation Summit Program Friday, April 9, 2010

The DCC has produced a report that provides a snapshot of the state of the art of preservation and curation in an institutional repository context in early 2010, noting areas of recent and current research and development.

This article from Inside Higher Ed includes a link to a 116 page pdf report by the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access.

iPRES 2010 7th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects September 19 - 24, 2010, Vienna, Austria

With increased pressure on universities and researchers to preserve research data for re-use in the future, JISC's Research Integrity Conference considered the role of universities in safeguarding research integrity and looked into the real issues being faced by universities from a strategic and technical perspective

Aims " to collect, preserve, and make accessible as much of the digital record of the disasters as possible, to enable scholarly research and analysis of the events and their effect." A new project from metaLab

In 2013 HathiTrust will be moving to a new cost model that will distribute the costs of sustaining the repository in a way that more accurately reflects the benefits each partner receives from the preserved collections. The new model will also allow institutions to join HathiTrust that wish to participate in the curation and management of the repository in return for specialized services, but do not necessarily have digital content to contribute

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See the discussion that unfolded among the commenters (a panel at a conference cannot be better.)

See the free executive summary. Digital technologies raise all kinds of issues regarding the validity of research data, standards, restrictions, and preservation. This book seeks to be an essential guide to the principles affecting research data in th

A New Approach to College Textbooks. Finally. We preserve the best of the old - books by leading experts, rigorously reviewed and developed to the highest standards. Then we flip it all on its head. Our books are free online. We offer convenient, low-cost

Joyce L Ogburn discusses the role of libraries in preserving data and shows examples of how tangible data formats have served scholars longitudinally.

A bibliography of more than 2000 citations to articles and books by Charles W. Bailey on data preservation and curation.

"Much turmoil in the scholarly-communication ecosystem appears to revolve around simple ownership of intellectual property. Unpacking that notion, however, produces a fascinating tangle of stakeholders, desires, products and struggles. Some products of the research process, especially novel ones, are difficult to fit into legal concepts of ownership. As collaborative research burgeons, traditional ownership and authorship criteria are stretched to their limits and beyond, with many contributors still feeling short of due credit. The desire for access and impact brings institutions and grant funders into the formerly exclusive relationship between authors and publishers. Librarians, stripped of first-sale rights by electronic licensing, wonder about both access and long-term preservation. Emerging solutions to many of these difficulties threaten to cut publishers out of the picture altogether, perhaps a welcome change to those stakeholders who find publishers' behavior to block progress."

A new publishing platform to showcase the best of that online work. It's called PressForward. And its creators-the same people who developed the academic-research platforms Zotero and Omeka-hope to take advantage of the interactive Web but preserve elements of scholarly review.

"It might seem silly to look to video-game fans for lessons on how to save our informational heritage, but in fact complex interactive games represent the outer limit of what we can do with digital preservation"