The UK Data Archive (UKDA) has announced the launch of UKDA-store, a new research output management tool. The new service is one of the several new developments that UKDA plans to launch in 2008. It will be formally launched at the National Centre for Research Methods Festival on June 30, 2008 in Oxford.
The UKDA-store will be used to submit data deposits into the UKDA and is expected to be of particular interest to funders who require award holders to share data as part of their contract. The service will initially be released to ESRC award holders with the intention of extending the system to other social science researchers, irrespective of funding.
The service will enable researchers to gather metadata about their research from a funding awards database, to which their digital outputs can be added, all within the same system. Researchers will be able to upload a range of digital objects to a repository, with the right to set permissions for individual and group access, so that data can remain private (on embargo) although metadata continues to be searchable. Furthermore, data that is judged to meet the UKDA's acquisition criteria can be formally lodged for long term central system preservation within the UKDA.
Founded in 1967, the UKDA is funded by the ESRC, JISC and the University of Essex. It now houses several thousand datasets of interest to researchers in all sectors and from many different disciplines. The Data Archive is an internationally-renowned centre of expertise in data acquisition, preservation, dissemination and promotion.
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