Assuring permanent open access to the
records of science & the humanities?
Long term access to primary data
 Increasing data volumes from eScience and
Grid-enabled / cyberinfrastructure applications
 Changing research paradigm: data-driven
science, “big science”
 Observational data, simulations, large-scale
experimentation, computations
 Multi-media resources, statistical data, surveys,
geo-spatial data……