tailieunhanh - GOT DATA? A GUIDE TO DATA PRESERVATION IN THE INFORMATION AGE

All research should be conducted to the highest levels of integrity, including appropriate research design and frameworks, to ensure that findings are robust and defensible. Researchers should also adhere to the highest level of research ethics, in line with requirements set out by national and international regulatory bodies, professional and regulatory research guidance and research ethics frameworks issued in appropriate areas. The onus should lie with the researcher to establish that s/he has always met the highest standards that could reasonably be expected of them and with the employing institution to ensure that systems are in place to support and re- inforce this | Surviving the Data Deluge CTOs on Virtualization Living Machines High-Performance Web Sites Open Information Extraction from the Web contributed articles DOklO. 1145 Tools for surviving a data deluge to ensure your data will be there when you need it. I BY FRANCINE BERMAN Got Data A Guide to Data Preservation in the Information Age Imagine the modern world without digital data anything that can be stored in digital form and accessed electronically including numbers text images video audio software and sensor signals. We listen to digital music on our iPods watch streaming video on YouTube record events with digital cameras and text our colleagues family and friends on BlackBerrys and cell phones. Many of our medical records financial data and other personal and professional information are in digital form. Moreover the Internet and its digital products have become our library shopping mall classroom and boardroom. It is difficult to imagine the information age without unlimited access to and availability of the digital data that is its foundation. Digital data is also fragile. For most of us an underlying assumption is that our data will be accessible whenever we want it. We also regularly confront the fallacy of this assumption most of us or our friends have had hard drives crash with the loss of valuable information or seen storage media become obsolete rendering information unavailable think floppy disks . Loss damage and unavailability of important digital business historical and official documents regularly make the news further highlighting our dependence on electronic information. As a supporting foundation for our efforts in the information age digital data in the cyberworld is analogous to infrastructure in the physical world including roads bridges water and electricity. And like physical infrastructure we want our data infrastructure to be stable predictable cost-effective and sustainable. Creating systems with these and other critical .