Shaon, Arif Engel, Felix Giaretta, David Conway, Esther Matthews, Brian Tzitzikas, Yannis Marketakis, Yannis Brocks, Holger di Giammatteo, Ugo Yu, Jinsongdi Guarino, Raffaele Marelli, Fulvio Crompton, Shirley CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/at/ application/pdf Digital Curation Institute, iSchool University of Toronto "iPres 2012 - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects." Editors: Reagan Moore, Kevin Ashley, Seamus Ross, 89-96 (2012-11-01) Text eng hdl:11353/10.293768 https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:293768 2012-11-01 Towards a Long-term Preservation Infrastructure for Earth Science Data: Paper - iPRES 2012 - Digital Curation Institute, iSchool, Toronto iPRES, iSchool, Toronto, Canada, digital preservation, e-infrastructure, earth science, services Conferences -- iPRES Conference (001000) -- Conference 2012 (001007) The effective preservation of both current and historical scientific data will underpin a multitude of ecological, economic and political decisions that shape the future of our society. The SCIDIP-ES project addresses the long-term preservation of the knowledge encoded in scientific data by providing preservation e- infrastructure services which support the persistent storage, access and management needs. Using exemplars from the Earth Science domain we highlight the key preservation challenges and barriers to be overcome by the SCIDIP-ES infrastructure. SCIDIP-ES augments existing science data e-infrastructures by adding specific services and toolkits which implement core preservation concepts, thus guaranteeing the long-term access and exploitation of data assets across and beyond their designated communities.