R0. Please provide context for the repository
Type of Repository. Select all relevant types from list given: • 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.
The Texas Digital Library was created in 2005 by four Texas members of the Association of Research Libraries: Texas A&M, Texas Tech, the University of Houston, and the University of Texas at Austin. Currently there are 22 member institutions in TDL.
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.
https://www.tdl.org/2017/01/announcing-official-launch-texas-data-repository/ http://data.tdl.org/
https://www.tdl.org/
https://dataverse.org/
Level of Curation Performed: A – Content distributed as deposited
The TDR maintains 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.
The TDR, and the data contained therein, is provided “as is” and “as available” and without warranty of any kind.
Versioning control is addressed in R7. Terms of Use Data Usage Agreement
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Outsource Partners:
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.
This network has been certified by the Center for Research Libraries as a TRAC-certified repository.
http://libraries.ucsd.edu/blogs/blog/texas-digital-library-joins-chronopolis/ https://libraries.ucsd.edu/chronopolis https://www.crl.edu/archiving-preservation/digital-archives/certification-assessment https://www.crl.edu/archiving-preservation/digital-archives/metrics-assessing-and-certifying/trac
The TDL is a charter member of the initial launch team for Digital Preservation Network (DPN) project. http://dpn.org/
The Texas Advanced Computing Center provides a vital part of the TDL’s preservation infrastructure and data storage for the TDL.
TDL members can use DuraCloudTM (a service of DuraSpace) for digital preservation.
The Public Knowledge Project provides open-source technologies for two of TDL’s scholarly communications services.
Other Relevant Information
re3data.org profile: https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100012385