Valuing Earth's books
Data maintenance is a corporate decision that makes sense in some cases. Disposal of the data might appear to be the lowest costing alternative, but some business models show that giving the core away with a cash endowment may cost no more than its disposal. Tinker comments on the importance of buil...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Geotimes 2002-06, Vol.47 (6), p.6 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Data maintenance is a corporate decision that makes sense in some cases. Disposal of the data might appear to be the lowest costing alternative, but some business models show that giving the core away with a cash endowment may cost no more than its disposal. Tinker comments on the importance of building and endowing public archives and research facilities that house rock and other subsurface data and collections. |
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| ISSN: | 0016-8556 |