Data Preservation in High Energy Physics

Understand

Data from high-energy physics (HEP) experiments are collected with significant financial and human effort and are mostly unique.

• At the same time, HEP has no coherent strategy for data preservation and re-use.
• An inter-experimental Study Group on HEP data preservation and long-term analysis was convened at the end of 2008 and held two workshops, at DESY (January 2009) and SLAC (May 2009).
• This document is an intermediate report to the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) of the reflections of this Study Group.