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Welcome to the Preservation and Stewardship Cluster

The objective of the new Preservation and Stewardship Cluster is to support the long-term preservation of Earth system science data and information. This Cluster provides a forum for ESIP members to collaborate on data preservation issues.

To join the e-mail list for this cluster, visit | esip-preserve and submit a request to join.

Notes from the Interagency Forum on Data Preservation/LifecCycle/Stewardship, held Jan 8, 2009 at the ESIP Federation Meeting are available [here].

Preservation Definitions

Standards that Support Preservation

OAIS (Open Archival Information System): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Archival_Information_System

Agency Preservation Strategies and Policies

References

Duerr et al., 2004, "Challenges in Long Term Data Stewardship", Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies. (PDF)

McKinney et al., 2001, "Earth Sciences Data Lifecycle Study", NASA SEEDS Data Lifecycle report (PDF).

Nominated Cluster Chair: Ruth Duerr