Status Report of the DPHEP Collaboration: A Global Effort for Sustainable Data Preservation in High Energy Physics
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/ Authors
DPHEP Collaboration, Silvia Amerio, Roberto Barbera, Frank Berghaus, Jakob Blomer, Andrew Branson, Germán Cancio, Concetta Cartaro, Gang Chen, Sünje Dallmeier-Tiessen
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Cristinel Diaconu, Gerardo Ganis, Mihaela Gheata, Takanori Hara, Ken Herner, Mike Hildreth, Roger Jones, Stefan Kluth, Dirk Krücker, Kati Lassila-Perini, Marcello Maggi, Jesus Marco de Lucas, Salvatore Mele, Alberto Pace, Matthias Schröder, Jetendr Shamdasani, Jamie Shiers, Tim Smith, Randall Sobie, David Michael South, Andrii Verbytskyi, Matthew Viljoen, Lu Wang
/ Abstract
Data from High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments are collected with significant financial and human effort and are mostly unique. An inter-experimental study group on HEP data preservation and long-term analysis was convened as a panel of the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA). The group was formed by large collider-based experiments and investigated the technical and organizational aspects of HEP data preservation. An intermediate report was released in November 2009 addressing the general issues of data preservation in HEP and an extended blueprint paper was published in 2012. In July 2014 the DPHEP collaboration was formed as a result of the signature of the Collaboration Agreement by seven large funding agencies (others have since joined or are in the process of acquisition) and in June 2015 the first DPHEP Collaboration Workshop and Collaboration Board meeting took place. This status report of the DPHEP collaboration details the progress during the period from 2013 to 2015 inclusive.