The Preservation of Research Data in a Postmodern Culture

Chuck Humphrey is writing on “The Preservation of Research Data in a Postmodern Culture”. The postmodernism is the compilation of an individual packaged identity rather than receiving that from an institution like in organized religion and political parties. This view transfers to data archives as dissemination turns to be a more direct on-demand access to global data resources using the Internet. The other side of this coin is that some users are “self-archiving” which is an approach unable to address the life cycle of research data. Compared to the institutional approach the individual approach will be short termed. How about you readers, do you find the institutional data archives to be under pressure from “self-archiving”?