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Efficient Ingest of Datasets ina Two-Stage Archival Process: The First Phase - Easy-Store

Marion Wittenbergmarion.wittenberg@dans.knaw.nl

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Joint initiative of

• Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)

• Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)

In the field of social and behaviouralsciences and the humanities.

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Data contract

• All projects funded by the Research Council (NWO) are bound to give access to their data

• Through trusted digital repositories or via DANS

• Always a copy to DANS• DANS portal

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Two-Stage Archival Process

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Easy Store

• Shifting the responsibility of the creation of metadata from the archivist to the researcher

• Basic metadata• File upload

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Requirements

• Upload data and enter metadata for a dataset by researchers themselves through the Internet

• Search on and download datasets • A workflow process that will be applied by the

data archivists• Support for persistent identifiers• Support for authorization and authentication • Linking and integration with other (3rd party)

systems in the future.

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Development

• In-House Development • Storage component• Web-access component• OAIS• LOCKSS• XML metadata• Open Source

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Data upload

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Dublin Core

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workflow

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Catalog search

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Description and download

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Conclusion

Easy store: enables researchers to deposit and download research dataand enables data archivists to workmore efficiently

Release: august 2006

Open Source