If we don’t act soon to preserve past records, invaluable knowledge will be lost, warns Elizabeth Griffin.
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an astronomer at Canada’s National Research Council Observatory in Victoria and a co-chair of the RDA Data Rescue Interest Group.
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Griffin, E. Rescue old data before it’s too late. Nature 545, 267 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/545267a
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