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Type of Repository

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Institutional Repository

Brief Description of the Repository’s Designated Community

The Texas Data Repository (TDR) is a service of the Texas Digital Library (TDL), a consortium of higher education institutions in Texas that builds capacity for preserving, managing, and providing access to unique digital collections of enduring value. The TDR is a platform for publishing and archiving datasets created by faculty, staff, and students at Texas higher education institutions. TDR is built in the open- source Dataverse platform, developed and used by Harvard University’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science.

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The TDR encourages data deposit from all disciplines and can accept any type of data file. Non- proprietary formats are advisable in order to ensure both access and broader use and ‘easier’ preservation/migration.

Level of Curation Performed

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Content distributed as deposited

The TDR maintains hosts at TDL maintain no obligation to monitor the site, service, content, or user uploads and does not review all user uploads before they are made available on the site, or before being published. Administrators and users of a particular Dataverse are responsible for the contents of that Dataverse.

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Versioning control is addressed in R7. Terms of Use Data Usage Agreement

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Outsource Partners

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Information about TDL’s partners can be found here: https://www.tdl.org/about-tdl/partners/ 1)

  • The 22 member institutions: https://www.tdl.org/members/

  • TDL has joined the Chronopolis digital preservation network which includes the University of California, San Diego Library; the National Center for Atmospheric Research; and the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies.

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  • Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) provides a vital part of the TDL’s preservation infrastructure

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  • for the TDL.

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  • may use DSpace repositories and DuraCloudTM digital preservation management systems primarily developed by Lyrasis).

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  • leads the open-source

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  • development of Open Journal System, which is used as the basis for for TDL’s journal hosting service.

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