Open Access week – October 2012 Ian Wellaway. A website where you can submit data and descriptive...

Submitting your data to an online

repositoryOpen Access week – October 2012

Ian Wellaway

A website where you can submit data and descriptive metadata

Its:◦ Secure◦ Robust◦ Publically accessible (or not if you don’t want it to

be)◦ Archive not backup!

What is a repository?

Free safe storage – better than on a:◦ PC◦ Laptop◦ Pen drive◦ CD/DVD◦ External hard drive◦ Third party storage

Backed up every night Your funder Accessible by others Handle – unique identifer (URI) Searchable via search engines (Google, etc)

Why should I put my data there?

Demonstration - eda.exeter.ac.uk◦ Using the ‘out of the box’ submission process

But how do I actually do it?

Remembers details of a previous submission

Allows faster selection of multiple files and or folders

Uploads very large files Aimed release: early 2013

New submission tool

The Dark archive...Dar-kive?

◦ Data not publically accessible◦ Still securely stored◦ Same submission process

I don’t want others to see my data!

Good question – what do you think? Competition

OK, so what’s it called?

Ian Wellaway◦ Infrastructure Systems, Exeter IT◦ i.j.wellaway@exeter.ac.uk

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