[BP - PRE] Data preservation already taken care of ?

Hoi,

It does not seem "PRE" has been claimed by any BP document yet so let's use
it for the "Data Preservation" one is that is ok with everyone ;-)

I was just about to create the wiki page to put some content in but found
out this page already existed :
http://www.w3.org/2013/dwbp/wiki/Data_preservation

It reads "Data preservation should be out of scope for the Data on the Web
Best Practices Working Group (DWBP WG) as data preservation is a large
complex field. DWBP should be about how to access data and not how to
preserve it. The DWBP WG should use the work of other groups such as
Long-Term Archive and Notary Services (ltans). The Long-Term Archive
Service Requirements should illustrate the complexity of this field. A
lighter read might be A System for Long-Term Document Preservation"

Not that I fundamentally disagree with that but I can not remember such a
finite decision was been taken by the group (I did miss many calls). Are we
still looking at producing a BP for data preservation or not ?

BTW, to give you an update on that, we are busy at DANS implementing a
system tailored for the preservation of Linked Data - Open or not - and our
first prototype has a distinction between what belong to the data
preservation part (and is thus shared with PNGs, PDFs, etc) and what is
more specific to Linked Data. It seems to me that though the former is
(clearly ?) out of scope for our group we could still provide some
interesting guidance for the later.

Cheers,
Christophe

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