Data Management Plans: Data Preservation

ScholarSpace, https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/, is an institutional repository for UH Manoa research papers, videos, datasets, instructional materials.

ScholarSpace provides long-term preservation of digital files.

ScholarSpace can provide permanent access to data or act as a safe storage space until data are moved to a discipline specific data repository.

The National Science Foundation under the Data Conservancy project is working on issues of data preservation. See https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/34018 for recent papers on scientific data preservation

CODATA is the Committee on Data for Science and Technology, a committee of the International Council for Science. CODATA publishes an open access journal, Data Science Journal, available at https://datascience.codata.org/

The U.S. National Academies Board on Research Data and Information, see http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/brdi/index.htm, is a national office of CODATA. A list of presentations with associated files is at http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/brdi/PGA_047286.

Purdue University Libraries has a current list of data repositories, searchable by keyword or by browsing. The Open Access Directory also has a list of data repositories available.

See below for a handful of discipline-specific data repositories to view as examples of the range of functionality of the interfaces:

• Dryad http://datadryad.org/ (biological sciences, basic and applied); in partnership with bioscience publishers Dryad is a repository for datasets associated with published articles. The metadata describing the datasets are from Dublin Core and Darwin Core.
• NOAA National Geophysical Data Center http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/ngdc.html
• GenBank http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/
• fMRIDC https://www.nitrc.org/projects/fmridatacenter/ (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
• Global Ocean Observing System http://www.ioc-goos.org/
• ICPSR, http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/ (University of Michigan hosted social sciences data)
• Protein Data Bank http://www.pdb.org/pdb/home/home.do
• National Virtual Observatory http://www.virtualobservatory.org/ (part of International Virtual Observatory, a portal to distributed datasets)
• NASA National Space Science Data Center http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Princeton's Dataspace team created a cost model for long-term data preservation and storage, see DataSpace: A Funding and Operational Model for Long-Term Preservation and Sharing of Research Data by authors Serge J. Goldstein and Mark Ratliff. The cost they project is approximately $5.00 a Gigabyte or $5000.00 a Terabyte.