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Data preservation strategy urgently needed.
Byline: Laura Smith
Data preservation strategy urgently needed
Laura Smith
Universities need to overhaul the "fragmented and incomplete" way they store research data if they are to make effective use of everything from transcripts of academic interviews to massive scientific datasets, a new report has concluded.
The report by UKOLN, the national centre of expertise in digital information management at the University of Bath, calls for a national data preservation strategy to lay down a common approach to data storage and usage.
"We are moving rapidly into an era of data driving research and scholarship," said Liz Lyon, director of the centre and author of the report. "If the currency of that work, the data itself, is not to be debased, it needs to be well managed, so that researchers can use it both now and into the future."
She told IWR that although the report, which involved interviews with around 20 people from universities, datacentres, learned societies and funding agencies, was only a "snapshot", it pointed to a wider problem.
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