Tech.md

Tech

RDM repositories

• UK Data Archive
• figshare
• [[Dryad|http://datadryad.org]] - repository for data relating to scientific and medical publications
• Harvard [[Dataverse Network|http://thedata.org/]]
• [[Databib|http://databib.org]] - searchable catalog / registry / directory / bibliography of research data repositories.
• Data Observation Network for Earth (DataONE)
• Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS)
• Archaeology Data Service (ADS)
• British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC)
• Many other subject-specific archives: GenBank (gene sequence data), TreeBASE (phylogenetic trees), EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database, Protein Data Bank, Gene Expression Omnibus
• [[PURR|https://purr.purdue.edu/]] from Purdue Uni in the US (recommended by [[RDM-at-the-UoS|Laurian Williamson]]
• [[data.bris|http://data.bris.ac.uk/data/]] at the University of Bristol, powered by [[CKAN|http://ckan.org/]].
• [[Open Research Exeter|https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/]] - holds data, theses, pre-prints etc

RDM repository technologies

• [[ePrints|http://www.eprints.org]]: open source repository software. Powers White Rose Research Online
• [[CKAN|ckan.org]]: open source repo software. Used at Lincoln and Bristol.
• DSpace
• [[Symplectic Elements|http://www.symplectic.co.uk]]: brings in paper metadata from external data sources such as Scopus and internal sources e.g. ePrints. Used at the UoS
• [[pyrdm|https://github.com/pyrdm/pyrdm]] is a Python-based library for research data management (RDM). It facilitates the automated publication of scientific software and associated input and output data.

Other open data repositories

• [[data.gov.uk|http://data.gov.uk]]
• [[Environment Agency DataStore|http://www.geostore.com/environment-agency]]
• linked data /semantic web
• RDF
• [[NYT Linked Open Data|http://data.nytimes.com]]

Data management plan (DMP) creation

• DMPTool

Citations

• Crossmark
• Crossref
• MOVE ELSEWHERE

Managing messy data

• [[OpenRefine|http://openrefine.org/]] (formerly Google Refine) - a "tool for working with messy data: cleaning it; transforming it from one format into another; extending it with web services; and linking it to databases like Freebase."

Format identification

• [[PRONOM|http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/Default.aspx]] - online resource of file format info, run by US National Archives
• [[Fido|https://github.com/openplanets/fido/]] - file format identification tool (written in Python), written by the [[Bodies-and-policies|OpenPlanets Foundation]].

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