Corinna Gries, John Magnuson, and Martin Merck talk about their long-lived data collections and provide answers to the following: What is best practice in data preservation? What are the challenges of long-term preservation? How long do you plan to maintain your data? What are your strategies for...

Cindy Severt and Peter Schoephoester describe what metadata and documentation are like in their disciplinary areas and address the following: Why is metadata important? What forms can metadata be in? What information does metadata document? Why is it important to standardize metadata?