  Several important and unique experimental high-energy physics programmes at a
variety of facilities are coming to an end, including those at HERA, the
B-factories and the Tevatron. The wealth of physics data from these experiments
is the result of a significant financial and human effort, and yet until
recently no coherent strategy existed for data preservation and re-use. To
address this issue, an inter-experimental study group on data preservation and
long-term analysis in high-energy physics was convened at the end of 2008,
publishing an interim report in 2009. The membership of the study group has
since expanded, including the addition of the LHC experiments, and a full
status report has now been released. This report greatly expands on the ideas
contained in the original publication and provides a more solid set of
recommendations, not only concerning data preservation and its implementation
in high-energy physics, but also the future direction and organisational model
of the study group. The main messages of the status report were presented for
the first time at the 2012 International Conference on Computing in High Energy
and Nuclear Physics and are summarised in these proceedings.
