The Office of Science Technology and Policy (OSTP) has issued a memo to promote stewardship of and access to scientific collections. Agencies that own or support permanent scientific collections are directed to draft a collections access and management policy within six months. Some of the specifics are interesting: a requirement to work with the Smithsonian on making information available in a central federal clearinghouse, a requirement to make images and videos available at the highest possible resolution, and others. Read the memo here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/ostp_memo_....
