"Preserve: Data is stored in a suitable long-term archive.
At this stage, the data are discoverable and can be
consulted by other scientists."

Source: M. E. Arass, I. Tikito and N. Souissi (2017). Data lifecycles analysis: Towards intelligent cycle.Intelligent Systems and Computer Vision (ISCV) 2017. pages 2-3.
Online: 10.1109/ISACV.2017.8054938 

Source: S. Allard (2012). Dataone : Facilitating escience through collaboration. Journal of eScience Librarianship, vol. 1, no. 1. page 3.