[SPG_Active_Members] Blue Ribbon report on Digital Data Storage

[Randall Neff]

Blue Ribbon Task Force Report: Preserving Our Digital Knowledge Base
Must Be a Public Priority
UCSD News (02/26/10) Zverina, Jan

The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and
Access recently released a report addressing the problem of ensuring
that digital information will be accessible in the future. The report
provides principles and actions to facilitate long-term economic
sustainability and context-specific recommendations geared toward four
specific scenarios--scholarly discourse, research data,
commercially-owned cultural content (such as digital media), and
collectively produced Web content such as personal Websites and blogs.
"Valuable digital information spans the spectrum from official
e-documents to some YouTube videos," says Task Force co-chair Fran
Berman. The report also cites four distinct prioritized courses of
action--organizational action, technical action, public policy action,
and education and public outreach action. The report concludes that
preservation strategies need to develop at their own pace. "A key
element of a robust sustainability strategy is to anticipate the
effect of these changes and take steps to minimize the risk that
long-term preservation goals will be impacted by short-term
disruptions," says Task Force co-chair Brian Lavoie.

Full article:
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/supercomputer/02-26taskforce.asp

Report:
http://brtf.sdsc.edu/biblio/BRTF_Final_Report.pdf

Randall.