Earth Science Data Management Handbook: Preservation and Affordability

Taking an accountant's view of the resources involved in developing, producing, validating, and maintaining Earth Science information, Volume 3 proposes a systematic threat analysis and stochastic reliability network to identify which components are most at risk of loss, thereby reducing the threat of asset impairment. It provides cost accounting tools to deal with budgets and the flow of money into and out of data collections organizations, including the declining cost of storage and computing hardware and the increasing cost of personnel.