The role of CERIF in a national research data shared service

Abstract

The UK is developing a research data shared service to allow researchers and institutions to meet their policy requirements for the deposit and curation of research data. The pilot service will enable researchers to easily deposit data for publication, discovery, safe storage, long term archiving and preservation. This means that they are able to provide sustainable access to research data so it can be reused. Jisc, the UK’s not for profit organisation providing digital services and solutions to the higher education sector, are funding the development of this shared service and working closely with 13 universities/consortia representing a broad spectrum of institutions across the HEI sector. Further details are available at https://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/research-data-shared-service.

This paper describes the development of the (meta)data model underpinning the RDSS and the mapping of this model to CERIF.