An inter-experimental study group, DPHEP, was formed in 2009 to systematically investigate the technical and organisational aspects of data preservation and long-term analysis in high-energy physics, a subject which had hitherto lacked clarity in the field. The study group includes representation from all major high-energy physics collider-based experiments and laboratories, as well as computing centres and funding agencies. A major report was released in May 2012, greatly expanding on the ideas contained in a preliminary publication three years earlier, and providing a more solid set of recommendations, not only concerning data preservation and its implementation in high-energy physics, but also the future direction and organisational model of the study group. A brief description of the DPHEP Study Group and some of the key messages from the major report are presented.
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@article{arxiv.1302.3379,
title = {The DPHEP Study Group: Data Preservation in High Energy Physics},
author = {David M. South},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.3379},
year = {2013}
}
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6 pages, 2 figures; proceedings of talk given at ICHEP 2012, Melbourne, July 2012