{"id":776,"date":"2014-01-02T17:43:42","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T17:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/?p=776"},"modified":"2014-01-02T17:47:19","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T17:47:19","slug":"study-1990s-research-data-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/2014\/01\/02\/study-1990s-research-data-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: 1990s Research Data Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a title=\"Most scientific research data from the 1990s is lost forever\" href=\"http:\/\/news.msn.com\/science-technology\/most-scientific-research-data-from-the-1990s-is-lost-forever\" target=\"_blank\">MSN News<\/a>: &#8220;According to a study by Timothy H. Vines, et al. titled &#8216;<a title=\"The Availability of Research Data Declines Rapidly with Article Age\" href=\"http:\/\/proxy.lib.uiowa.edu\/login?url=http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0960982213014000\" target=\"_blank\">The Availability of Research Data Declines Rapidly with Article Age<\/a>,&#8217; published last week in Current Biology, most raw data from scientific papers published twenty years ago is unobtainable &#8211; either because authors have since changed their contact information and can&#8217;t be reached or because the data was stored using outdated technology, like floppy disks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This study\u00a0confirms the importance of policies requiring proper\u00a0archiving of research data. For more information about data archiving, please contact the Sciences Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From MSN News: &#8220;According to a study by Timothy H. Vines, et al. titled &#8216;The Availability of Research Data Declines Rapidly with Article Age,&#8217; published last week in Current Biology, most raw data from scientific papers published twenty years ago is unobtainable &#8211; either because authors have since changed their contact information and can&#8217;t be<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/2014\/01\/02\/study-1990s-research-data-lost\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Study: 1990s Research Data Lost&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,6,7,9],"tags":[23],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}