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 preserving data?

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?

Bruce Maas and Garret Suen discuss their vision for data management and answer these questions: Why does it matter how researchers manage their data? What is your vision for data preservation and management in the next five to ten years?

Amy Remm and Paul Wilhite discuss the following questions about data-sharing in their research groups: Who do you share data with? How do you share data? How has data sharing advanced research in your field? What are the benefits of sharing data?