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Preserving Online Science: Reflections

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50 years from now, what web content from today will be invaluable for understanding science in our age? What kinds of uses do you imagine this science content could serve? Lastly, where are the natural curatorial homes for this online content and how can we work together to collect, preserve, and provide access to science on the web? These were the three principal questions up for discussion at Science at Risk: Toward a National Strategy for Preserving Online Science, a recent NDIIPP summit. Thanks to generous support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, we were able to invite a small but diverse set of science bloggers, representatives from citizen science projects and individuals working on innovative online science publications to talk about and share their work with archivists, librarians, curators, and historians from a diverse array of cultural heritage organizations to work through and explore these questions.

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