[Rdap] saving server space in institutional repositories

[Joe Hourcle]

On Tue, 5 Sep 2017, Daureen Nesdill wrote:

> Hi
> In 2014 the Data Act was passed https://www.usaspending.gov/Pages/data-act.aspx to increase transparency and accountability in government. As a result states and cities have been developing  portals to their open data. Utah is one of those states : https://utah.gov/digital/  https://opendata.utah.gov/.  They are looking for any data related to the state. Guess what? There is a lot of research at the U of Utah related to the state - health, environment, disaster relief and recovery, fire, land use, water quality, etc.
>
> If all the data related to research about the state is hosted on state servers at state expense, then the library does not have to host it and save server space and save $$$$.
>
> Anyone else working with their state IT?

Before you shift everything to them, you should check to see who is 
considered responsible for the data if it was generated as part of a 
grant.  If it's the university, you'd probably want to keep a dark 
copy, just in case the state archives loses it.

And I admit that it's been a while since I talked to anyone from the 
National Archive, but when they had the second release of 'data.gov', I 
was chatting with someone from there, and I remember that the amount of 
digital data that they were dealing with was orders of magnitude less than 
what our group did.  (and that's not even all of NASA).  I wouldn't be 
surprised if the same was true for state archives.

-Joe