PARSE.Insight, an EU-funded project concerned with the preservation of digital information in science, has recently published a draft roadmap that provides an overview and details of a number of specific components which would be needed to supplement existing and planned infrastructures for scientific data.
PARSE.Insight is a two-year project co-funded by the European Union under the Seventh Framework Programme. It is concerned with the preservation of digital information in science, from primary data through analysis to the final publications resulting from the research. The problem is how to safeguard this valuable digital material over time, to ensure that it is accessible, usable and understandable in future. The rapid pace of change in information technology threatens media, file formats and software with obsolescence, and changing concepts and terminology also mean that, even if data can be read, it might not be correctly interpreted by future generations.
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