The purpose of this study is to compare international approaches to conceptualising, implementing, maintaining and developing infrastructure arrangements relevant to the curation and sharing of research data. The main deliverable from this study will be a report whose audience will include the UK funding bodies (including the JISC and its strategic partners), the Research Councils, data services and data centres.

National Data Infrastructures Study

The purpose of this study is to compare international approaches to conceptualising, implementing, maintaining and developing infrastructure arrangements relevant to the curation and sharing of research data. The main deliverable from this study will be a report whose audience will include the UK funding bodies (including the JISC and its strategic partners), the Research Councils, data services and data centres.

This study is now available and can be downloaded at the bottom of this page. There are two files available:

  • The full report (108 pages) - containing all the detailed analysis work
  • A summary of the main findings (10 pages) - containing recommendations and a broad overview of the study

Lead institution

  • The Digital Curation Centre, University of Edinburgh

Project Staff

Project manager

Graham Pryor, Associate Director & E-Science Liaison, Digital Curation Centre, University of Edinburgh, graham.pryor@ed.ac.uk

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Summary
Start date
16 June 2008
End date
30 January 2009
Funding programme
Digital preservation & records management programme
Committees
  • JISC Integrated Information Environment committee
Topic