[Esip-preserve] FYI Article: "Lost Science: Protecting Data Through Improved Archiving"

[Curt Tilmes]

http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2013EO370006

Simmons, K. E. (2013), Lost Science: Protecting Data Through Improved 
Archiving, Eos Trans. AGU, 94(37), 323.

Keywords: informatics;data stewardship;data curation

Abstract:

Mike Carr wrote recently of the wonderful planetary geology accomplished 
by NASA over the past 50 years of space exploration, with images and 
descriptions from the early Venus, Mars, and lunar missions as well as 
more recent missions, which evoked good memories (M. H. Carr, Geologic 
exploration of the planets: The first 50 years, Eos, 94(3), 29–30, 
doi:10.1029/2013EO030001, 2013). Unfortunately, memories are not science 
data, and those 50 years have not been as kind to the scientific 
information collected by these pioneering missions.