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ARL Workshop on Libraries & Stewardship of
Research Data
In late September the Association of Research Libraries (ARL)
hosted a workshop to provide the National Science Foundation with
advice on new approaches and particularly on research library roles in
supporting the curation and preservation of research data. The report
on this meeting is now available. See the ARL announcement
below.
Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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The final report of the ARL Workshop on digital data
stewardship , To Stand the Test of Time: Long-term Stewardship of
Digital Data Sets in Science and Engineering, is now available via
http://www.arl.org/info/frn/other/ottoc.html.
The report of a two-day, NSF-funded workshop, examines the role
of research and academic libraries with other partners in the
stewardship of scientific and engineering digital data. Workshop
participants explored issues concerning the need for the new
partnerships and collaborations among domain scientists,
librarians, and data scientists to better manage digital data
collections, necessary infrastructure development to
support digital data, and the need for sustainable economic
models to support long-term stewardship of scientific and
engineering digital data for the Nation's cyberinfrastructure.
The workshop report builds on prior studies supported by NSF. It
reflects the recognition, voiced in many NSF workshop reports, that
digital data stewardship is fundamental to the future of scientific
and engineering research and the education enterprise and hence to
innovation and competitiveness. Overall, it is clear that an ecology
of institutional arrangements among individuals and organizations,
sharing an infrastructure, will be required to address the
particularities of heterogeneous digital data and diverse scholarly
and professional cultures.
You may also be interested in Chris Greer's (NSF Office of
Cyberinfrastructure) presentation to the NSF Advisory Committee for
Cyberinfrastructure ( http://www.nsf.gov/events/event_summ.jsp?cntn_id=108124&org=OCI ) . His presentation provides additional detail on the
"National Digital Data Framework Launch Concept."
Prudence S. Adler
Associate Executive Director
Association of Research Libraries
21 Dupont Circle, N.W., Suite 800
Washington, D.C. 20036
(202) 296-2296 x104 (phone)
(202) 872-0884 (fax)
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