The Pararchive Project

You may be interested in Stephanie Kingsley’s piece on the importance and complexity of archiving today’s digital artefacts.

In July 2015, Mary Ellen McIntire reported on a fascinating project in the U.S called DataBridge that created a repository of scientific knowledge and data sets that would otherwise be dumped in hidden places thereby rendering them inaccessible. DataBridge helps deposit such data sets in one place to enable their exploitation for any potential value…

To date, it has been challenging for researchers outside the company who are tackling big questions to collaborate with us to access our public, historical data. Our Data Grants program aims to change that by connecting research institutions and academics with the data they need. engineering.twitter.com/research/data-grants Though the timeframes of both our Bute and Stoke community…