Data Services

The Data Archive provides data services that are tied to the 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