Micro Data Repositories: Increasing the Value of Research on the Web

Presentation at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

General Track Papers and Panels

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As funders and the academic community start to recognise the value in preserving and disseminating data, computing services departments are increasingly called upon to provide infrastructure. We discuss considerations in developing a micro repository approach, where an instance of a repository is created for each dataset, exploring data acquisition and interface requirement. Key to this approach is standardising instances of the repository for reduced support overheads. Details of two micro data repositories are provided as case studies. While the two repositories differ significantly in nature, both have been managed on the same infrastructure and have been well recieved by their respective owners resulting in the creation of an institutional solution.