[Irtalk] Our Digital Future - Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Long Term Data Preservation and Access — Cambridge Big Data

[Hilton Gibson]

As the worldwide volume of digital data undergoes exponential growth, Big
Data technology allows unexpected value to be derived from existing and new
datasets, and increasingly huge datasets to be recorded across all areas of
academic research. As data volumes grow, and electronic storage
deteriorates, the recoverability of this data is dependent upon curation of
electronic archives and replacement of storage media, along with the
ability to discover and access the data stored using technologies that may
soon be obsolete. Decisions will need to be made about which data is kept,
how it is stored, and how it can be accessed, in order that the scientific
and human record from the current digital age is appropriately preserved
for the future.

http://www.bigdata.cam.ac.uk/events/cambridge-events/our-digital-future-2016/our-digital-future-2016
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