The motivation of the PARSE.Insight project is to contribute to the long-term access to the digital resources created by scientific endeavour. ...
In the first year of project the main emphasis of the project has been surveying communities with an interest in digital preservation to build up insight, and developing a draft roadmap for the e-infrastructure. ...
Another clear message [from the surveys] is that researchers would like to (re-)use data from both their own and other disciplines, and it is suggested that this is likely to produce more and better science. However more than 50% report that they have wished to access digital research data gathered by other researchers which turned out to be unavailable. ...
During the course of the year, it was proposed to broaden the project scope away from preservation towards a more general science data infrastructure. ...
In the sustainability and evaluation work, the focus has been on the progress towards an international standard for audit and certification of digital repositories. A workshop was held in the US at which excellent progress was made on the draft standard, which is now close to submission to the ISO process. ...
By the end of the project an important base of data will have been assembled concerning the attitudes and practices of a wide range of scientific communities concerning digital preservation and science data infrastructure. This will provide an excellent body of evidence for policy makers, strategists and funders. The data will be both broad and deep (from the interviews and case studies).
The project will revise its roadmap, which will influence the agenda of development in the science data infrastructure for the coming years. The roadmap will be complemented by an understanding of the gaps with respect to the current situation. Additional stakeholders will be involved, from the Alliance for Permanent Access and through the series of workshops that are to be organised.
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.
