Data Archiving: Management Issues
•What is archiving?
•Relation to other data management functions?
•OAIS model distinguishes issues by
•archive administration
•external and community management
•Advocacy needed to secure funding
•Data management is not science
•Business and organizational models
•economic and cost, public and private
•incentives and dis-incentives for populating and maintaining deposits
•Selection and appraisal criteria and prioritization
•Ownership and control
•Planning and requirements issues
•practices are changing
•local practices differ
•mandates and objectives differ
•what is effective access?
•Applications
•diversity of customers: scientists, politicians, citizens
•Some operational considerations
•size
•diversity: source, formats, documentation
•time horizon for access
•changes in data definitions, formats
•hardware and software obsolescence