Electronic Data Archiving: Ensuring Accessibility, Durability, and Usability

摘要

The amount of scientific data generated in current times is growing at an ever-accelerating rate. The desire, need, and requirement to collect and maintain these data in a readily accessible and tamper-proof way that ensures a high degree of integrity over an indeterminate number of years exist. Changing at an equally accelerated rate is the technology used to collect, store, and retrieve data. This chapter describes the challenges for long-term data storage. It profiles the various strategies necessary for maintaining an electronic data archive.