Depositing data

Are you looking for a place to archive your research data? The EASY online archiving system offers you this opportunity. A licence agreement is concluded, in which agreements are laid down about the accessibility of your data to others. You can archive your data using a personal account. The data are stored according to the guidelines of the Data Seal of Approval, which is an internationally established data quality mark. The Provenance document informs you about the data processing of deposited data sets.

Please visit EASY to archive your own research data. You are assisted by extensive instructions, an online helpdesk as well as our DANS staff.
• General instructions for depositing data
• Instructions for depositing archaeological data
• Instructions for depositing historical data
• Instructions for depositing sociale science data
• Overview - preferred formats and accepted formats

Preservation and selection of data
Research data need to be preserved for various reasons. For instance, you may need to reuse or check the data or a funder requires it. But which data should be preserved and which not? The checklist is intended to assist you in answering this question.
Checklist for storing and selecting research data

Would you like to have more detailed information on the preservation and selection of research data? The publicaton ‘Selection of Research Data, Guidelines for appraising and selecting research data’ contains the latest state of affairs regarding this subject. This publication is based on literature studies, several interviews with key players and the experiences of DANS and the 3TU.Datacentre.

Data Management Plan 
In order to meet the researchers’ wishes to be able to access practical information with regard to managing, documenting and sharing data at the start of a research project, DANS has drawn up a Data Management Plan. Sources for this plan include the Data Management Plan of the UK Data Archive in the United Kingdom and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research in the United States.

The publication Preparing Data for Sharing; Guide to Social Science Data Archiving, is aimed at those engaged in the cycle of social science research, from applying for a researh grant, through the data collection phase, and ultimately to preparation of the data for deposit in the DANS data archive, or any other data repository. The publication is intended to help researchers manage and document their data to prepare them for archival deposit, as well as think more broadly about the types of digital content that should be deposited in an archive.

Contact
If you would like to have information about depositing data or about material which is not yet available digitally, please contact us via help and support.