Ten Simple Rules for Digital Data Storage

Edmund M Hart; Pauline Barmby; David LeBauer; François Michonneau; Sarah Mount; Patrick Mulrooney; Timothée Poisot; Kara H Woo; Naupaka B Zimmerman; Jeffrey W Hollister

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005097

Ten Simple Rules for Digital Data Storage

PLoS Comput Biol. 2016 Oct 20;12(10):e1005097. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005097. eCollection 2016 Oct.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ University of Vermont, Department of Biology, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America.
² University of Western Ontario, Department of Physics and Astronomy, London, Canada.
³ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, National Center for Supercomputing Applications and Institute for Genomic Biology, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America.
⁴ University of Florida, iDigBio, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America.
⁵ University of Florida, Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America.
⁶ King's College London, Department of Informatics, London, United Kingdom.
⁷ University of California at San Diego, San Diego Supercomputer Center, San Diego, California, United States of America.
⁸ Université de Montréal, Département de Sciences Biologiques, Montreal, Canada.
⁹ Washington State University, Center for Environmental Research, Education, and Outreach, Pullman, Washington, United States of America.
¹⁰ University of Arizona, School of Plant Sciences, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America.
¹¹ US Environmental Protection Agency, Atlantic Ecology Division, Narragansett, Rhode Island, United States of America.

No abstract available

Publication types

Editorial
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Databases, Factual / trends
Humans
Information Storage and Retrieval / standards*

Grants and funding

DL was funded by the Energy Biosciences institute and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. FM was funded by iDigBio (Integrated Digitized Biocollections), and therefore this material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation’s Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections Program (Cooperative Agreement EF-1115210). KHW was funded by Washington State University. NBZ was funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation through Grant GBMF 2550.03 to the Life Sciences Research Foundation. PB was funded by the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Academic Development Fund of the University of Western Ontario. TP was funded by an NSERC Discovery Grant, and a Start-Up grant from the Université de Montréal. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.