Public Access to Digital Data: Public Comment

On November 3, 2011, OSTP released a Request for Information (RFI) soliciting public input on long-term preservation of, and public access to, the results of federally funded research, including digital data ,as required in the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010. Below are the public comments received by OSTP during the comment period. You can read the RFI on digital data here. Comments on the questions in the RFI were accepted through January 12, 2012.

OSTP has established an interagency policy group under the National Science and Technology Council—the Interagency Working Group on Digital Data—to identify the specific objectives and public interests that need to be addressed by any policies in this area. The group will take into account the varying missions, types of data, standards, and dissemination models associated with the range of Federal science agencies and scientific disciplines, and will help OSTP address other public access requirements in the COMPETES Act.

The comments are presented below as a single document and individually, in chronological order, in the accompanying table. Click on a name below to see that person's comments. Any additional materials provided by the commenter can be accessed by clicking on the index numbers in the Supplementary Information column.

Single PDF containing all 118 comments