Bringing information together in the blog

This weekend has been spent doing quite a lot more background reading into digital preservation in general, particularly what is being done overseas. Much of the literature between projects initiated by the Digital Curation Centre and JISCPOWR deal with interwoven issues. Numerous blogs and articles also bring these resources together for the information of the reader. I have found excellent articles raising most of the key issues as to why data preservation will be so vital in the years to come. Economic (limited resources of various organisations, why not share data, rather than going to the expense of replicating it?), importance and relevance of Cultural issues, historical value of data across all disciplines, economic value in itself, biodiversity, interoperability, sustainability. Some of the challenges identified include, where this data will be stored, speculation that vast quantities of data are continually lost, more data created than there is physical and electronic storage space, Intellectual property, the roles of each individual organisation (or individual) to take responsibility for preservation of data, formatting the data, long-term accessibility, the organisation and classification of the data, amongs many other issues.