Experts Hope to Save UK Research for Future Generations

Software developers and digital librarians are working in partnership to tackle how best to preserve the vast piles of academic data held in hard drives, desk drawers and filing cabinets around the country. Their efforts will help ensure that hundreds of thousands of articles, databases and research findings - which might otherwise be lost - are made accessible for future generations. Repository Fringe 2008, a conference hosted by the University of Edinburgh from 31 July to 1 August 2008, will see researchers exchange ideas on the best way this data might be collected, stored and made accessible.