National Data Repositories 2014, Baku

摘要

The Energisties-backed National Data Repository (NDR) informal gathering of regulators and data managers from around the world met last month in Baku, Azerbaijan. The meet heard from a range of data repositories at different stages of evolution and taking very different development paths. To give just a couple of examples from the dozen or so on show, we contrast the approaches taken by Venezuela and Kenya. Victor Bruley from Scan Geofisica outlined Venezuela's journey to an NDR. To date, some 150.000 (of an estimated total of around one million) magnetic tapes have been transcribed and stored in a new data center. Bruley observed that 'classic artisanal' transcription methods do not scale to such operations.