Jaz drives, spiral notebooks, and SCSI: how we lose scientific data
15th November 2010
Let’s say you’ve got a nice, digitized version of some scientific data, and you’ve already made reasonable choices about how close to the raw data you want to get in what you preserve. Better yet, you’ve hounded your students often enough that they’ve placed it in a single format and provided all the annotations that are needed to make sense of the data. You’re all set to preserve it and share it with the rest of the scientific community. Except you aren’t, because doing so creates its own challenges.