[Sigdl-l] FW: [CNI-ANNOUNCE] OSTP Directive on Improving Management of Scientific Collections

[Richard Hill]

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Richard Hill

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From: CNI-ANNOUNCE -- News from the Coalition [mailto:CNI-ANNOUNCE at cni.org] 
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 2:26 PM
To: CNI-ANNOUNCE -- News from the Coalition
Subject: [CNI-ANNOUNCE] OSTP Directive on Improving Management of Scientific
Collections

 

Today, the US White House Office of Science and Technology Policy issued a
directive to federal agencies that own or support scientific collections
calling for improved management and access to these collections.

 

The announcement is at

 

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/03/20/fossils-seeds-and-space-rocks-impr
oving-management-and-access-nation-s-scientific-co

 

and the directive itself is at

 

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/ostp_memo_scie
ntific_collections_march_2014.pdf

 

A short quote from the directive that provides some sense of the scope:

 

Therefore, the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) hereby directs
each Federal agency that owns, maintains, or otherwise financially supports
permanent scientific collections to develop a draft scientific-collections
management and access policy within six months. Agencies should collaborate
through the IWGSC [the Interagency Working Group on Scientific Collections]
while developing these draft policies to reduce redundancy and identify
opportunities for common requirements and standards. The end goal will be a
systematic improvement of the development, management, accessibility, and
preservation of scientific collections owned and/or funded by Federal
agencies.

 

The requirements below are intended to apply to institutional scientific
collections owned, maintained, or financially supported by the U.S.
Government. This policy applies to scientific collections, known in some
disciplines as institutional collections, permanent collections, archival
collections, museum collections, or voucher collections, which are assets
with long-term scientific value. Materials assembled specifically for
short-term use, sometimes referred to as "project collections", and not
intended for long-term preservation, do not fall under this policy, but such
collections should be reviewed periodically and carefully to ensure that
they should not be considered institutional collections.

 

Clifford Lynch

Director, CNI

 

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