Follow-up on digital data

I agree with Ricc's discourse on digitized and digital data. Data can be born digital, and that is certain the case for a lot of scientific data. These digital objects must be preserved and curated. The NASA community has been well aware of this for space data, and NASA data centers have been doing just this for the past few decades. It may be useful to SI to look into some of these digital data management activities (visit SAO!). I personally would like to compare notes with other units that manage digital data for science analysis purposes. Maybe we should organize some fact-finding/awareness-raising field trips.