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Statement of purpose: "Data Conservancy is devoted to developing institutional solutions for the challenges of data collection, preservation and re-use." Developed at Johns Hopkins University, but available for use by other large institutional data collections, this site explains one large-scale data repository model.

By Karon Kelly, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Colorado State University, Research Data Management Workshop, March 24, 2011. This is a PDF of a powerpoint describing the significance of data curation in the hard sciences.

By Matthew S. Mayernik, G. Sayeed Choudhury, Tim DiLaurio, Barbara Pralle, Mike Rippin, Ruth Duerr in D-Lib Magazine, Sept/Oct 2012, Vol 18 (9/10).

Joint project of the National Science Board and the National Science Foundation (2005), this project looks at the costs, technologies, and processes associated with long-term archiving of data collections and how this potentially impacts science. This page provides links to individual chapters of this report (in PDF format) along with the full report.