[Esip-preserve] Article on physical data preservation

[Ramdeen, Sarah]

Hello Everyone,

Sorry I missed the call yesterday.  I was traveling.  I look forward to reviewing the notes.  In the meantime, I wanted to share something with you all.  An article of mine which was just published.  Excuse the shameless promotion - it is my first solo authored peer reviewed piece, and it is on my dissertation topic.  SO I am very excited about it.  I have had help on it from a few ESIP folks and I thought you all might be interested.

Thanks!
Sarah

Preservation challenges for geological data at state geological surveys
http://authors.elsevier.com/a/1R33L7tTUKRpxx
GeoResJ
Volume 6, June 2015, Pages 213-220
Rescuing Legacy Data for Future Science

Abstract
State geological surveys are home to legacy geological data that holds value in the present. Early legislation of geological surveys often included requirements that state surveys have a museum or cabinet to house their physical collections. These collections currently include data such as cores, cuttings, thin sections and fossils. State geological surveys maintain these collections to support scientific research that has value to those in government, industry, academia and the public. Survey collections and other similar science data collections, are in danger of being lost due to various risks such as poor curation, few access points, lack of funding, and space considerations. Efforts to preserve these collections have increased, beginning with a National Research Council report in 2002 highlighting this plight, and the founding of the National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) in 2005. Currently, programs like EarthCube address this problem by focusing on cyberinfrastructure needs that will ease discovery and access to specimen datasets. Even with these efforts, there is still much work to be done.

Increasing preservation and ease of access requires training in data curation and preservation as well as a better understanding of the users of geological data. This paper will introduce geological collections, provide examples of preservation challenges surrounding these types of collections, and suggest future research directions. This includes collaborations with library and information scientists, archivists, museums curators, as well as cross training of domain scientists. Future management systems for these collections should provide increased discovery and access to geological data.


Sarah Ramdeen Doctoral Candidate
School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina
ramdeen at email.unc.edu<mailto:ramdeen at email.unc.edu>
http://ramdeen.web.unc.edu/

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