Efficient Ingest of Datasets in

1

• Efficient Ingest of Datasets in
• a Two-Stage Archival Process
• The First Phase - Easy-Store
• Marion Wittenberg
• marion.wittenberg_at_dans.knaw.nl

2
Joint initiative of

• Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  (KNAW)
• Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
  (NWO)
• In the field of social and behavioural
• sciences and the humanities.

3
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

4
Two-Stage Archival Process
5
Easy Store

• Shifting the responsibility of the creation of
  metadata from the archivist to the researcher
• Basic metadata
• File upload

6
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.

7
Development

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

8
Data upload
9
Dublin Core
10
workflow
11
Catalog search
12
Description and download
13
Conclusion

• Easy store enables researchers to
• deposit and download research data
• and enables data archivists to work
• more efficiently
• Release august 2006
• Open Source