The Library, in conjunction with General Research IT (GRIT), is offering a data rescue service on a pilot basis. Faculty and researchers can use this service to request that a federal or other dataset of research value to them that will soon be lost or is thought to be at risk of loss or becoming inaccessible online be archived locally.
Our approach
- Coordinate with the Data Rescue Project to make sure this dataset is not already preserved by another institution
- Collect metadata and other information to provide context to the dataset
- Deposit metadata content in a data repository within the DataONE federation and assign DOIs to enable discovery and citation
- Update metadata with labels to signal this is an archived copy and not the original dataset
- Datasets themselves will be stored on GRIT servers and made available by FTP
Our ability to archive datasets is subject to limitations of staff time and disk storage. Contact Library Research Data Services for more information.
Here is an example of an archived dataset about sea level rise:
Sea Level Rise Data (1–10 ft Inundation Extent)
[Archived copy of] NOAA Office for Coastal Management Sea Level Rise Data: 1–10 ft Sea Level Rise Inundation Extent
Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity
urn:uuid:0a32e261-498d-4ea2-8ecb-180ec6560bf5
Marsh Migration Dataset
[Archived copy of] NOAA Office for Coastal Management Marsh Migration
https://search.dataone.org/view/urn%3Auuid%3Af2b31648-65c0-415a-962a-84aa2a99fd76
UCSB Sea Level Rise Visualization
Projected impacts of a 3 ft sea level rise on the UCSB campus
https://coast.noaa.gov/slr/
