Criteria
- Price
- Initial subscription price
- Free storage size limit
- Either total price or price per year
- Individuals
- Organizations (including publishers, scientific societies, libraries, funders, and others)
- Size limit
- Default uploaded file size
- Uploaded file size on request
- Number of files that can be stored
- Total allowed storage capacity
- Allowed data types
- Data types
- What is the plan for ensuring that the data type can be read in the future?
- Research restrictions
- Not allowed material
- Research phase
- Research topic requirement
- Like astronomy, biology, archeology and so on
- Access to data
- Conditions that the files have to fulfill
- Tracking users and statistics
- Restricted Access
- Data security
- How many copies of the data are present?
- How protected are the data?
- Location
- Place located
- Accept material from
- Ownership
- Versions
- Safety
- Sustainability
- What is the plan in case the service gets terminated?
- What funding is there?
- How much do the users of the service contribute with
- How high is the risk of the service getting terminated
- Withdrawal of data
- Revocation of DOIs
- Data privacy
- Virus check
- Encryption
- Form restrictions (like corpus, survey etc)
- Policy/Law
- Preservation of data
- Retention period
- Functional preservation
- File preservation
- Fixity and authenticity
- Metadata
- Access and reuse
- License
- Requirement/wishes
- Submission Information Package (SIP)
- Record decision relating to SIP
- Identify data objects
- Validate files
- Automated extraction of metadata
- Record related physical material
- Select and configure automation
- Process large numbers of large files
- Persistent unique internal identifiers
- PDI associated with content information
- PREMIS metadata schema
- Describe data at different levels of granularity
- Maintain relationship between different file representations
- Store technical metadata extracted from files
- Preservation plans for individual or groups of files
- Automatic checking performed post-migration
- Record actions, migrations and administrative processes
- Disposal of data where appropriate
- Record of what, when and why material got disposed
- Statistics
- Monitor the integrity using checksums
- Error report when data are lost or corrupted
- Compliant with OAIS
- Integrate with a range of repository or content management systems
- APIs for integrating with other systems
- Incorporate new digital preservation tools as they become available
- Extracting and exporting data and metadata
- Support and technical help is available
- Under active development
- Community of users exists
Repository
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Research Data Management description
Selecting data for preservation
http://library.stanford.edu/research/data-management-services/share-and-preserve-research-data/selecting-data-preservationSelecting data for preservation
When it is time to preserve your data, you will need to carefully consider exactly which components of your research need to be preserved. Answering "yes" to any of the following questions with regard to a particular data file or set of data may indicate that those data should be preserved for the long-term.
- Do the data support published research?
- Are the data vulnerable?
- Are the data required for your research but from another source (i.e. not your original research data)?
- If so, is the future availability of those data from the original source uncertain?
- Do you wish, or are you required, to share your data?
- Are the data historically significant?
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