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

[Moriana Garcia]

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From: Richard Hill <rhill at asis.org>
Date: Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 2:34 PM
Subject: [Sigdl-l] FW: [CNI-ANNOUNCE] OSTP Directive on Improving
Management of Scientific Collections
To: rdap at asis.org, sigdl-l at asis.org






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NEW ADDRESS AS OF Feb. 16, 2014

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-improving-management-and-access-nation-s-scientific-co



and the directive itself is at



http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/ostp_memo_scientific_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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