... The report includes three key recommendations to pursue this vision. The first is to create an Interagency Subcommittee under NSTC that will focus on goals that are best addressed through continuing broad cooperation and coordination across agencies. The second key element of the strategic framework is for departments and agencies to lay the foundations for agency digital scientific data policy and make the policy publicly available. In laying these foundations, agencies should consider all components of a comprehensive policy to address the full data management life cycle. The third key element is for all agencies to promote a data management planning process for projects that generate scientific data for preservation. ...
See also our past post on the IWGDD. The recommendations were also discussed at the National Academies' Board on Research Data and Information meeting, which we blogged about previously.
Update (Peter, 3/7/09). An excerpt from the report:
GOAL 2: MAXIMIZE DIGITAL DATA ACCESS AND UTILITY
...[A] critical requirement for American competitiveness is to establish and continuously improve a robust and pervasive information infrastructure to maximize access to digital scientific data.
Scientific information in an accessible and interoperable digital environment has the characteristics of a public good. The information is not destroyed and its value is not diminished upon use. On the contrary, digital access has a catalytic effect, multiplying the value of information through repeated use by a wide variety of users in a diversity of settings and applications. This requires effective coordination, extensive interoperability, and innovative tools and services across the full spectrum of digital preservation and access resources....
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 3/05/2009 12:06:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
