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How do your data grow?

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Scientists need to ensure that their results will be managed for the long haul. Maintaining data takes big organization, says Clifford Lynch.

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  4. ARL Workshop on New Collaborative Relationships Report to the National Science Foundation. To Stand the Test of Time: Long-Term Stewardship of Digital Data Sets in Science and Engineering (2006).

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  1. Clifford Lynch is the executive director of the Coalition for Networked Information, 21 Dupont Circle, Washington DC 20036, USA, and an adjunct professor at the School of Information, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720-4600, USA. cliff@cni.org ,

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Lynch, C. How do your data grow?. Nature 455, 28–29 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/455028a

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