RE: [digital-curation] ISO stories of scientific data recovery

We also got exactly the same request at CERN.
Cheers, Jamie
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From: remgriffin <***@***.***-cnrc.gc.ca>
Date: 23/02/2017 18:02 (GMT+01:00)
To: "William L. Anderson" <***@***.***>, Data Rescue IG <***@***.***-groups.org>
Cc: Monya Baker <***@***.***>, DARTG <***@***.***>
Subject: [data-rescue] RE: [digital-curation] ISO stories of scientific data recovery
Absolutely! It's what the Data Rescue mission is all about!
Bill - we have a number of stories on file which Monya might like to use, but then some of them have come from magazines like Nature, if not from Nature itself. I hope the source file is shown on the stories? I believe you are still the custodian of them?
Let's follow this up! It could lead to valuable contacts.
best wishes,
Elizabeth Griffin (Chair, CODATA Data At Risk TG).
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From: William L. Anderson [***@***.***]
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2017 11:27 AM
To: Griffin, Elizabeth
Cc: Monya Baker; Data Rescue; DARTG
Subject: [digital-curation] ISO stories of scientific data recovery
Elizabeth et al., this note and request seems relevant to the previous data-at-risk work and the continuing data rescue work.
/Bill
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From: Monya Baker <***@***.***>
Date: Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 7:11 PM
Subject: [digital-curation] ISO stories of scientific data recovery
To: Digital Curation <***@***.***>
Pardon the broad post.
I'm reporting a story for Nature about how scientists might turn to
digital curation to gain access to scientific data (old notebooks, zip
drives, defunct media).The goal is to find some scientists who have
struggled to get data off outdated media. Have any of you helped any
scientists through this, or do you have suggestions for people that I
might ask? I'm looking for success stories and frustration stories.
You can reach me at ***@***.***
Thanks in advance for your help.
Best,
Monya

The British Geological Survey have been rescuing data for decades. I worked for them in the 1990s attempting to extract old borehole and lithology data from fortran cards and old paper logs to be put into their national databases (at that time ORACLE and Vax/VMS). They would be a good source of both success and frustration stories, as the variation in source material and media is extremely wide, and their data archives go back to the 1800s.
I can come up with some contacts if needed,
Theresa
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From: elizabeth.griffin=***@***.***-groups.org [mailto:***@***.***-groups.org] On Behalf Of remgriffin
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2017 12:05 PM
To: William L. Anderson; Data Rescue IG
Cc: Monya Baker; DARTG
Subject: [data-rescue] RE: [digital-curation] ISO stories of scientific data recovery
Absolutely! It's what the Data Rescue mission is all about!
Bill - we have a number of stories on file which Monya might like to use, but then some of them have come from magazines like Nature, if not from Nature itself. I hope the source file is shown on the stories? I believe you are still the custodian of them?
Let's follow this up! It could lead to valuable contacts.
best wishes,
Elizabeth Griffin (Chair, CODATA Data At Risk TG).
________________________________________
From: William L. Anderson [***@***.***]
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2017 11:27 AM
To: Griffin, Elizabeth
Cc: Monya Baker; Data Rescue; DARTG
Subject: [digital-curation] ISO stories of scientific data recovery
Elizabeth et al., this note and request seems relevant to the previous data-at-risk work and the continuing data rescue work.
/Bill
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From: Monya Baker <***@***.***>
Date: Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 7:11 PM
Subject: [digital-curation] ISO stories of scientific data recovery
To: Digital Curation <***@***.***>
Pardon the broad post.
I'm reporting a story for Nature about how scientists might turn to digital curation to gain access to scientific data (old notebooks, zip drives, defunct media).The goal is to find some scientists who have struggled to get data off outdated media. Have any of you helped any scientists through this, or do you have suggestions for people that I might ask? I'm looking for success stories and frustration stories.
You can reach me at ***@***.*** Thanks in advance for your help.
Best,
Monya
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The special issue of GeoResJ on Data Rescue (GeoResJ volume 6) holds a
number of stories. More stories have been gathered as part of the
competitions for the International Data Rescue Award in the Geosciences
2013, 2015, and 2016
Kerstin

Everyone,
John Faundeen and myself (Lance Everette) are wrapping up year 1 of a study
of US Geological Survey legacy data preservation methods, resource
requirements and challenges. We've been working with data on/in various
media and formats, requiring some challenging methods and tools. USGS
presents some particular challenges to legacy data preservation due to its
institutional age (130+ years), broad and deep scientific expertise and its
long history of not only generating massive amounts of data but also
building the hardware and software required to acquire and analyze it.
We're planning to publish our results but can certainly chat about it
anytime. I'm always interested in talking legacy data preservation!
LE
Lance Everette
U.S. Geological Survey
Fort Collins Science Center
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