Dear John,
I certainly agree with your point. This would indeed be an argument to keep copies of all datasets -- even though we are not any likely to look at them ever again, beyond 1% of the more difficult cases. Regards, Sergei Prof. Sergei V. Strelkov Laboratory for Biocrystallography Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, KU Leuven <http://pharm.kuleuven.be/anafar> ________________________________ From: John R Helliwell <jrhelliw...@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, July 13, 2018 12:07 To: Sergei Strelkov Cc: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Should we still keep copies of all raw data? Dear Sergei, Re "all". As a researcher my perspective is that one's funding agency requirement for a data management plan will be the core of what you would need to follow. Your employer may have additional policies and requirements placed on you as an employee. Eg the UK funding agency EPSRC requires data be retained for 10 years. My employer, University of Manchester, has a policy which regards data loss as research malpractice. Central facility data retention policies vary from facility to facility so you would need to check ie for the ones you use. For publication IUCr encourages raw data underpinning a publication be archived and its doi cited. That doi can also be entered into the relevant PDB deposition. Best wishes, John Emeritus Professor John R Helliwell DSc On 13 Jul 2018, at 10:30, Sergei Strelkov <sergei.strel...@kuleuven.be<mailto:sergei.strel...@kuleuven.be>> wrote: Dear All, I believe this question may be of some interest. In the past, we always stored all raw data ever collected by the lab. With the recent advances, such as (a) automated/on-the-fly processing offered by some (European) synchrotrons, and (b) an ongoing discussion on centralized raw data archiving, I wonder if it is time to revise the strict policy of keeping all data (before we invest in a new NAS system... ) Best wishes, Sergei Prof. Sergei V. Strelkov Laboratory for Biocrystallography Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, KU Leuven <http://pharm.kuleuven.be/anafar> ________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1
