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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?
