1. PV Ensuring Long Term Preservation and Adding Value to Scientific and Technical Data Concluding Remarks

2. Why the PV conference ?
Scientific and Technical Data are more than JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks) !
How to organize, to curate and to describe all this data?
How to keep this information easily accessible and useful for the future?
How to bring added value to this data?
What are the tools and applications enhancing its use and usefulness?
How to share data easily and make it interoperable?
What are the current modern techniques used to reach these goals?
What will be the future ones?
What are the lessons learnt from experience?
How to put them in practice in the future?

3. Still some work until PV2011 and further …
PV 2009, 1-3 Dec 2009
Many interesting talks, posters, discussions through the conference
Practical experience, operational systems, “theoretical” studies, future prospects, …
Many disciplines have been covered
All questions have been addressed
May be not all have been fully answered
Still some work until PV2011 and further …

4. Final Logistics !
Final PV2009 Programme will be updated on the web including
Presentations (PPT and PDF format)
Poster (PPT, please them to
Papers (PDF)
Conference pictures to be uploaded on the PV2009 web
Please send them to if you have nice ones
Stay tuned :

5. Special Thanks to
Asa Ericson for all the support enabling smooth logistics !
Santa Martinez, Adolfo Vazquez for the registration process and IT aspects
Pilar Garcia for all financial support
Rod Bailey for all web support
ESAC Sites Services and Canteen staff
All POC members for the programme preparation and session chairing
All speakers for the interesting talks and keeping the time !
All of you for your attendance !
Richard Moreno and CNES for taking up the organization of PV 2011 in Toulouse !

6. See you soon at ESAC or somewhere else !