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Category: Communication

Description: There is no central place or organized highway to get us to relevant publications. Is it possible that the community is satisfied with this relatively ad-hoc support to access our published literature? As the community grows, isn’t it time to overhaul our assumptions and infrastructure for access to our own research? Implicit in this discussion are the concepts of selection and appraisal. Not every digital preservation resource is for the long term, not every bit matters. Where should efforts be concentrated, and what digital materials can we live without? If the digital preservaiton community cannot answer these relatively obvious questions for ourselves, then we may struggle to persuade others to do the same. In the research data area, the principles of FAIR are used for data: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable. These principles would be very useful for the digital preservation literature, with an additional P of “Preserved” (or is this in the R?). How could we achieve that the digital preservation literature is FAIR for all practitioners?