Tessella, a global IT and consulting services company, born and headquartered in UK with revenues exceeding £17 million in 2009, has been selected to be included in the Data Conservancy team, led by Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Sheridan Libraries.

This company is joining the Data Conservancy team to work in a research data preservation project that has been awarded with a 5 year grant ($20 million) by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

The scope of the project is to build a data research infrastructure for managing the increasing amounts of digital information created for teaching and research, and it is part of the $100 million DataNet program, which aims at establishing a national cyber-infrastructure to support the long term preservation and curation of scientific data.

Source: http://www.tessella.com/2010/01/press-release-20-million-us-archiving-pr...