Jisc Research Data Registry and Discovery Service

The DCC is currently working on a six-month pilot to test possible approaches to a UK-wide registry or catalogue of research data held in UK HEIs and established subject-focused data centres, realising aims set out in the 2010 findings of the RLUK / RUGIT / Jisc UKRDS initiative. The service resulting from this pilot work will be one of the benefits of the Jisc higher education subscription package.

In this initial six-month phase (October 2013 – March 2014), the DCC pilot will test approaches for a service which will aggregate metadata relating to data collections or datasets held in UK research institutions and subject data centres. Neither the pilot nor any further service will act as a repository for the datasets themselves. Rather, our work ultimately aims to provide a coherent point of access to discoverable, searchable, browsable and actionable descriptions of given datasets and how to access them, and so showcase the wealth of UK research data.

The pilot is being delivered by the DCC and the UK Data Archive, working with other RCUK data centres and a small group of universities with working data repositories. The team members involved are Alex Ball, Patrick McCann and Laura Molloy of the DCC, and Veerle Van Den Eynden of the UK Data Archive. We’ll be posting updates on our progress here and on the DCC blog tagged ‘research data registry’.

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Show me the data / The pilot UK Research Data Registry | 26 février 2014