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Jaz drives, spiral notebooks, and SCSI: how we lose scientific data
- zandorg 16y agoI used to backup all my stuff onto CD-R's, then DVD-R's. Now I get a 1TB drive and copy it to 4 other 1TB drives in various places. I also have an organisation system which declares EG OthersAlbums, or MyDocuments. Others[ETC] contains stuff I didn't create, My[ETC] is stuff I created myself. I also have 2 16GB flash drives with just about everything I've created.
- zaphar 16y agoI get it. Its hard. Its not simple. You still have to do it. unit testing and integration tests are hard in my line of work. They take time I could be spending creating stuff. They are an annoying interruption in my day. I still have to do them though. And after a while they pay off when the code gets bigger. Doing the work to share the data will pay off too, but first you have to do the sharing.
- billswift 16y ago>retrieving that sort of material may simply be impossible. Bull, it may be difficult and expensive, but calling it impossible is just excuse-making; if it is not worth it to recover the data is really a different matter than whether it is possible. When the data has actually been lost, then it's impossible.
- chadgeidel 16y agoForgive me if this is ignorant. Referring to publicly funded projects only here - why isn't this data / source code / whatever published as part of the research paper, and archived by someone like the Library of Congress?