“This paper is included on page 53 of the final report for the NSF Workshop, Curating for Quality: Ensuring Data Quality to Enable New Science, that took place 10-11 September 2012. The workshop was sponsored by the National Science Foundation and hosted by UNC School of Information & Library Science. Some takeaways from the Erway/Lavoie paper include:

• Allocation of digital preservation resources needs to be ongoing over time.
• Key tradeoffs are involved in allocating resources to digital preservation that should be recognized upfront.
• The management of these tradeoffs should be informed by the risks that could potentially impact the preservation process over time.
• It is unwise to attempt to replicate a broad range of data curation services, infrastructure and expertise at every institution.”