SEAD Virtual Archive: Building a Federation of Institutional Repositories for Long-Term Data Preservation in Sustainability Science

Major research universities are grappling with their response to the deluge of scientific data emerging through research by their faculty. Many are looking to their libraries and the institutional repositories for a solution. Scientific data introduces substantial challenges that the document-based...

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Main Authors: Beth Plale, Robert H. McDonald, Kavitha Chandrasekar, Inna Kouper, Stacy Konkiel, Margaret L. Hedstrom, James Myers, Praveen Kumar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2013-11-01
Series:International Journal of Digital Curation
Online Access:http://129.215.67.233/ijdc/article/view/281
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author Beth Plale
Robert H. McDonald
Kavitha Chandrasekar
Inna Kouper
Stacy Konkiel
Margaret L. Hedstrom
James Myers
Praveen Kumar
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description Major research universities are grappling with their response to the deluge of scientific data emerging through research by their faculty. Many are looking to their libraries and the institutional repositories for a solution. Scientific data introduces substantial challenges that the document-based institutional repository may not be suited to deal with. The Sustainable Environment - Actionable Data (SEAD) Virtual Archive (VA) specifically addresses the challenges of ‘long tail’ scientific data. In this paper, we propose requirements, policy and architecture to support not only the preservation of scientific data today using institutional repositories, but also rich access to data and their use into the future.
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spelling doaj.art-81809edae4704f678d034e2ac927500c2023-12-01T14:17:49ZengUniversity of EdinburghInternational Journal of Digital Curation1746-82562013-11-0182SEAD Virtual Archive: Building a Federation of Institutional Repositories for Long-Term Data Preservation in Sustainability ScienceBeth PlaleRobert H. McDonaldKavitha ChandrasekarInna KouperStacy KonkielMargaret L. HedstromJames MyersPraveen KumarMajor research universities are grappling with their response to the deluge of scientific data emerging through research by their faculty. Many are looking to their libraries and the institutional repositories for a solution. Scientific data introduces substantial challenges that the document-based institutional repository may not be suited to deal with. The Sustainable Environment - Actionable Data (SEAD) Virtual Archive (VA) specifically addresses the challenges of ‘long tail’ scientific data. In this paper, we propose requirements, policy and architecture to support not only the preservation of scientific data today using institutional repositories, but also rich access to data and their use into the future.http://129.215.67.233/ijdc/article/view/281
spellingShingle Beth Plale
Robert H. McDonald
Kavitha Chandrasekar
Inna Kouper
Stacy Konkiel
Margaret L. Hedstrom
James Myers
Praveen Kumar
SEAD Virtual Archive: Building a Federation of Institutional Repositories for Long-Term Data Preservation in Sustainability Science
International Journal of Digital Curation
title SEAD Virtual Archive: Building a Federation of Institutional Repositories for Long-Term Data Preservation in Sustainability Science
title_full SEAD Virtual Archive: Building a Federation of Institutional Repositories for Long-Term Data Preservation in Sustainability Science
title_fullStr SEAD Virtual Archive: Building a Federation of Institutional Repositories for Long-Term Data Preservation in Sustainability Science
title_full_unstemmed SEAD Virtual Archive: Building a Federation of Institutional Repositories for Long-Term Data Preservation in Sustainability Science
title_short SEAD Virtual Archive: Building a Federation of Institutional Repositories for Long-Term Data Preservation in Sustainability Science
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