I doubt many people completely fail to archive data but maintaining data archives can be a pain so I'm not sure what the useful age of the average archive is. Do people who archived to tape keep their tapes in a format that can be read by modern tape drives? Do people who archived data to a hard drive 10 years ago have something that can still read an Irix EFS-formatted SCSI hard drive today and, if not, did they bother to move the data to some other storage medium?
-Eric On Apr 5, 2012, at 9:08 AM, Roger Rowlett wrote: > FYI, every NSF grant proposal now must have a data management plan that > describes how all experimental data will be archived and in what formats. I'm > not sure how seriously these plans are monitored, but a plan must be provided > nevertheless. Is anyone NOT archiving their original data in some way? > > Roger Rowlett >
