Transcript Sometime in the 2010s, if all goes well, the Large Synoptic Survey

“Sometime in the 2010s, if all goes well, the Large
Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will start to
bring a vision of the heavens to Earth. Suspended
between its vast mirrors will be a three billionpixel sensor array, which on a clear winter night
will produce 30 terabytes of data. In less than a
week this remarkable telescope will map the
whole night sky …. And then the next week it will
do the same again … building up a database of
billions of objects and millions of billions of bytes.”
Nature 440:383
Information Big Bang
The Fragility of Memory in a Digital Age
“In 1964, the first electronic mail message
was sent from either MIT, the Carnegie
Institute, or Cambridge University. The
message does not survive, however, and
so there is no documentary record to
determine which group sent the
pathbreaking message.”
Report of the Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information
Commission on Preservation and Access and the Research Libraries Group
NASA plans new search for missing
moon tapes
Aug. 15, 2006, 5:13PM
Seth Borenstein, Associated Press
WASHINGTON —NASA said today it was
launching an official search for more than
13,000 original tapes of the historic Apollo
moon missions.
The Challenge
“If we are effectively to preserve for future
generations the …. corpus of information in
digital form that represents our cultural
record, we need … to commit ourselves
technically, legally, economically, and
organizationally to the full dimensions of the
task.”
Report of the Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information, 1996
NSF Draft Strategic Plan for
Data, Data Analysis, and
Visualization
www.nsf.gov/od/oci/ci-v7.pdf
Chapter 3
Data Strategic Planning Group
• Sylvia Spengler
(Chair)
• Deborah Crawford
• Cheryl Eavey
• James French
• Chris Greer
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Elizabeth Lyons
David Lightfoot
Fillia Makedon
Jose Munoz
Dan Newlon
Nigel Sharp
Vision:
“… a vision in which science and engineering
digital data are routinely deposited in welldocumented form, are regularly and easily
consulted and analyzed by specialists and nonspecialists alike, are openly accessible while
suitably protected, and are reliably preserved.”
Goals:
• To catalyze the development of a
system of science and engineering
data collections that is open,
extensible and evolvable.
• To support development of a new
generation of tools and services
facilitating data acquisition, mining,
integration, analysis, and
visualization.
National Digital
Data
Framework
University
State
Federal
College
USER
Local
Non-profit
Commercial
International
User-centric, Multilevel, Nimble, Sustainable, Reliable
The Universities
“Ever since their inception, universities have
been occupied with the fundamental elements
of what we now call 'knowledge management',
i.e. the creation, collection, preservation and
dissemination of knowledge.”
A. Oosterlinck, Knowledge Management in PostSecondary Education: Universities
The Academic Libraries
“It is to the research library community that
others will look for the preservation of …
digital assets, as they have looked to us in the
past for reliable, long-term access to the
‘traditional’ resources and products of
research and scholarship.”
Association of Research Libraries (ARL)
Strategic Plan 2005-2009
A Digital Repository for the Future?
Domain
Sciences
Computer and
Information
Sciences
Cyber
Infrastructure
Archival
Sciences
NSF Draft Strategic Plan for
Data, Data Analysis, and
Visualization
www.nsf.gov/od/oci/ci-v7.pdf
Chapter 3