Research Data Management: 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 Registry of Research Data Repositories (Re3data) 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/