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Recommendations and Guidance for MSAD's Microgravity Data and Sample Archiving Strateg y
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... The high costs and limited opportunities for reproducing microgravity data dictate the need for archival preservation2 based on a careful selection process and an ongoing evaluation of archiving costs in relation to the scientific community's valuation and use of the microgravity data and samples. Data to Be Archived Flight experiments performed in the microgravity sciences vary enormously in size, scope, subject discipline, and data output.
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... Format and Accessibility of Archived Material Archived data and samples serve no purpose if they cannot be subsequently retrieved and used. Access issues have been studied previously by a number of groups, and the committee agrees with the conclusions in Networking of Materials Property Data3 and Computer-Aided Materials Selection During Structural Design4 that menu-driven and intuitively understood search and retrieval interfaces are essential if the archived data are actually to be used in the future.
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... As with its archives of samples, NASA should make reasonable attempts to ensure that the scientific community is aware of archived microgravity data and has a means of gaining access to it. The committee recommends that NASA take advantage of the growth in the Internet-based World Wide Web to post EDMPs on-line for all of its microgravity flight experiments.
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... 2 In the recently published National Research Council report Preserving Scientific Data on Our Physical Universe (National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., p.
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