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Did you know that many projects begin, have a specific purpose planned out, but do not have a long-term plan in place for the management of the data after the project ends? This is an issue across many research fields, including natural/physical/social sciences, medicine, and other fields which collect data. For many years, there wasn't a venue or way for data to be stored, categorized, searchable, and broadly available, so this was a problem without an easy solution. Now, the internet and public databases have helped to provide a piece to that puzzle, however, there are still issues with adoption of technology, errors in documentation. lack of standardization, and more. Check out our article on
Data and Knowledge Preservation over at
Earthzine to learn more about this topic.
