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Report number	arXiv:1205.4667 ; DPHEP-2012-001 ; FERMILAB-PUB-12-878-PPD ; DPHEP-2012-001
Title	Status Report of the DPHEP Study Group: Towards a Global Effort for Sustainable Data Preservation in High Energy Physics
Author(s)	Akopov, Zaven (DESY) ; Amerio, Silvia (INFN, Padua) ; Asner, David (PNL, Richland) ; Avetisyan, Eduard (DESY) ; Barring, Olof (CERN) ; Beacham, James (New York U.) ; Bellis, Matthew (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.) ; Bernardi, Gregorio (Paris U., VI-VII) ; Bethke, Siegfried (Munich, Max Planck Inst.) ; Boehnlein, Amber (SLAC) ; Brooks, Travis (SLAC) ; Browder, Thomas (Hawaii U.) ; Brun, Rene (CERN) ; Cartaro, Concetta (SLAC) ; Cattaneo, Marco (CERN) ; Chen, Gang (Beijing, Inst. High Energy Phys.) ; Corney, David (Rutherford) ; Cranmer, Kyle (New York U.) ; Culbertson, Ray (Fermilab) ; Dallmeier-Tiessen, Sunje (CERN) ; Denisov, Dmitri (Fermilab) ; Diaconu, Cristinel (Marseille, CPPM ; DESY) ; Dodonov, Vitaliy (DESY) ; Doyle, Tony (Strathclyde U. ; CERN) ; Dubois-Felsmann, Gregory (SLAC) ; Ernst, Michael (Brookhaven) ; Gasthuber, Martin (DESY) ; Geiser, Achim (DESY) ; Gianotti, Fabiola (CERN) ; Giubellino, Paolo (CERN) ; Golutvin, Andrey (CERN) ; Gordon, John (Rutherford) ; Guelzow, Volker (DESY) ; Hara, Takanori (KEK, Tsukuba) ; Hayashii, Hisaki (Nara Women's U.) ; Heiss, Andreas (KIT, Karlsruhe) ; Hemmer, Frederic (CERN) ; Hernandez, Fabio (Unlisted, FR) ; Heyes, Graham (Jefferson Lab) ; Holzner, Andre (CERN) ; Igo-Kemenes, Peter (CERN) ; Iijima, Toru (Nagoya U.) ; Incandela, Joe (UC, Santa Barbara ; CERN) ; Jones, Roger (CERN) ; Kemp, Yves (DESY) ; van Dam, Kerstin Kleese (PNL, Richland) ; Knobloch, Juergen (CERN) ; Kreincik, David (Cornell U., Phys. Dept.) ; Lassila-Perini, Kati (Helsinki Inst. of Phys.) ; Le Diberder, Francois (Orsay, LAL) ; Levonian, Sergey (DESY) ; Levy, Aharon (Tel Aviv U.) ; Li, Qizhong (Fermilab) ; Lobodzinski, Bogdan (DESY) ; Maggi, Marcello (INFN, Bari) ; Malka, Janusz (DESY) ; Mele, Salvatore (CERN) ; Mount, Richard (SLAC) ; Neal, Homer (SLAC) ; Olsson, Jan (DESY) ; Ozerov, Dmitri (DESY) ; Piilonen, Leo (Virginia Tech.) ; Punzi, Giovanni (Fermilab) ; Regimbal, Kevin (PNL, Richland) ; Riley, Daniel (Cornell U., Phys. Dept.) ; Roney, Michael (Victoria U.) ; Roser, Robert (Fermilab) ; Ruf, Thomas (CERN) ; Sakai, Yoshihide (KEK, Tsukuba) ; Sasaki, Takashi (KEK, Tsukuba) ; Schnell, Gunar (Basque U., Bilbao) ; Schroeder, Matthias (CERN) ; Schutz, Yves (SUBATECH, Nantes) ; Shiers, Jamie (CERN) ; Smith, Tim (CERN) ; Snider, Rick (Fermilab) ; South, David M. (DESY) ; St. Denis, Rick (Glasgow U.) ; Steder, Michael (DESY) ; Van Wezel, Jos (KIT, Karlsruhe) ; Varnes, Erich (Arizona U.) ; Votava, Margaret (Fermilab) ; Wang, Yifang (Beijing, Inst. High Energy Phys.) ; Weygand, Dennis (Jefferson Lab) ; White, Vicky (Fermilab) ; Wichmann, Katarzyna (DESY) ; Wolbers, Stephen (Fermilab) ; Yamauchi, Masanori (KEK, Tsukuba) ; Yavin, Itay (McMaster U. ; Perimeter Inst. Theor. Phys.) ; von der Schmitt, Hans (Munich, Max Planck Inst.)
Collaboration	DPHEP Study Group
Publication	2012 - 93.
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Subject category	Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract	Data from high-energy physics (HEP) experiments are collected with significant financial and human effort and are mostly unique. An inter-experimental study group on HEP data preservation and long-term analysis was convened as a panel of the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA). The group was formed by large collider-based experiments and investigated the technical and organisational aspects of HEP data preservation. An intermediate report was released in November 2009 addressing the general issues of data preservation in HEP. This paper includes and extends the intermediate report. It provides an analysis of the research case for data preservation and a detailed description of the various projects at experiment, laboratory and international levels. In addition, the paper provides a concrete proposal for an international organisation in charge of the data management and policies in high-energy physics.

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