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Source to Output Repositories

The StORe project aimed to gain a clearer understanding into what functionality is required from repositories of research publications and research data, so that they will be more useful to researchers. User surveys were carried out across several subject areas.

This project addressed the area of interactions between output repositories of research publications and source repositories of primary research data.

User surveys were conducted to determine required functionality in both types of repository in order to make them useful to researchers both when using primary data in source repositories and at the point of submitting to or downloading papers from output repositories. Subject areas included were: astronomy, physics, biochemistry, social sciences, archaeology and chemistry.

With the aid of the survey results, general principles for middleware development to link source and output repositories together were sought, and a business analysis was performed.  A pilot demonstrator was developed in one area of the social sciences. A full and extensive evaluation of the project was carried out in order to inform JISC of the best options for future development in this area.

Archive contribution

The UK Data Archive led work packages delivering a business analysis and technical specification of interlinking functionality among data and research literature archives and a pilot implementation emulating a federation comprising the UK Data Archive, the LSE's Research Articles Online and a University of Essex prototype institutional repository.

Principal investigator: 
Funder:  JISC
Dates:  June 2005 - May 2008
Contact:  Acquisitions team
Links:  StORe final report

A QUICK GUIDE TO THE ARCHIVE  

1 of 8: We provide continuous access to the UK’s largest collection of digital research data in the social sciences
2 of 8: We hold thousands of data collections for social science research and teaching, quantitative and qualitative
3 of 8: We hold the only copy of many of the UK's large national surveys charting social research back decades
4 of 8: We are an established national archive at the forefront of managing, preserving, sharing and delivering data
5 of 8: We are a collaborative organisation supporting emerging and existing creators and users of data
6 of 8: We provide best practice guidance and training in managing and sharing research data
7 of 8: You won’t be able to find your family records on our site. You should visit a genealogical site instead
8 of 8: We don’t provide ready-made statistics, but using Nesstar you can view frequencies from popular surveys

OUR SERVICES  

ESDS 
providing access to key economic and social data
RELU-DSS 
supporting rural research data management
Census.ac.uk 
providing a gateway to 1971- 2001 UK censuses
HDS 
enabling access to a range of historical resources
SDS 
enabling safe and secure remote access to data
SQB 
providing access to key survey questionnaires
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