Evidence Promoting Good Data Management¶

• Evidence Promoting Good Data Management
  • The Lost Laptop Problem
  • Reliability
  • Data management in the cloud
    • Google Terms Of Service
    • Microsoft Services Agreement
  • Archiving Data
    • BBC Domesday Project
  • Sharing Data
  • Related Media
    • Disk Drives Break
    • Laptops Break / Get Broken

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Disasters

Tales Of Lost Data

The Lost Laptop Problem¶

• 2010 Ponemon Institute report for Intel re. US laptops
  • On average, 2.3% of laptops assigned to employees are lost each year
  • In education & research that rises to 3.7%, with 10.8% of laptops being lost before the end of their useful life
    • ~3 years i.e. within 1 PhD of allocation!
  • 75% lost outside the workplace
• Very similar results from 2011 European report!

Intel 2010, The Billion Dollar Lost Laptop Problem - http://tinyurl.com/8c9m4bn

Intel 2011, The Billion Euro Laptop Problem - http://tinyurl.com/9wpbxn9

Reliability¶

Data management in the cloud¶

See JISC/DCC document "Curation In The Cloud" - http://tinyurl.com/8nogtmv

Service agreements may give wide-ranging rights to the data service.

Google Terms Of Service¶

1 March 2012 Google Terms of Service : http://tinyurl.com/89dc9fa

When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give
Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store,
reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from
translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your
content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly
perform, publicly display and distribute such content. The rights you
grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting,
and improving our Services, and to develop new ones. This license
continues even if you stop using our Services (for example, for a
business listing you have added to Google Maps).

Microsoft Services Agreement¶

19 October 2012 Microsoft services agreement : http://tinyurl.com/8e4kucy

When you upload your content to the services, you agree that it may
be used, modifed, adapted, saved, reproduced, distributed, and
displayed to the extent necessary to protect you and to provide, protect
and improve Microsoft products and services. For example, we may
occasionally use automated means to isolate information from email,
chats, or photos in order to help detect and protect against spam and
malware, or to improve the services with new features that makes them
easier to use. When processing your content, Microsoft takes steps to
help preserve your privacy.

Archiving Data¶

BBC Domesday Project¶

1986 Project to do a modern-day Domesday book (early crowd-sourcing)

• Used “BBC Master” computers with data on laserdisc
• Collected 147,819 pages of text and 23,225 photos
• Media expiring and obsolete technology put the data at risk!

Domesday Reloaded (2011)

• Required emulation of software
• Images restored from original masters
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday

To allow long-term access to data

• Don't use obscure formats!
• Don't use obscure media!
• Don't rely on technology being available!
• Do keep original source material!

Google images for BBC Domesday

Sharing Data¶

Piwowar, Heather A., Roger S. Day, and Douglas B. Fridsma. Sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate.
PLoS One 2.3 (2007): e308.

Related Media¶

Disk Drives Break¶

DataCent collection of disk drive failure sounds

Laptops Break / Get Broken¶

• Shot laptop
• Google images of broken laptops

Further Reading