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The Data Archive provides data services that are tied to the data life-cycle.

DataOne Data Life Cycle

 

Plan

  • Review data sources
  • Help investigate archiving issues, costs, consent and disclosure risks
  • Consult on a data management plan (DMP)

Collect/Assure

  • Project management and file organization
  • Quality assurance for collected data and acquisition workflows
  • Consultation on restricted data access and security

Describe

  • Assist with filenames, standard terminology and data dictionaries
  • Document analysis and file manipulations
  • Help identify appropriate field standards

Preserve

  • Help with backing up your data
  • Help with deciding what data to preserve
  • Choosing stable file formats
  • Help identifying suitable repositories

Integration

  • Consider compatibility of data sets
  • Document steps
  • Capture the provenance of sources

Analysis

  • Help identify appropriate software
  • Consultation on coding best practices
  • Help utilize reproducible research methods 

 

 

 

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