Background Information
(DRAFT) Context
R0. Please provide context for the repository
RepositoryType
Other - Research data repository
Brief Description of the Repository
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 managing 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.
Brief Description of the Repository’s Designated Community
Level of Curation Performed
Content distributed as deposited
Basic curation e.g., brief checking, addition of basic metadata or documentation
Enhanced curation e.g., conversion to new formats, enhancement of documentation
The TDR 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.
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. https://texasdigitallibrary.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/TDRUD/pages/289079299 https://texasdigitallibrary.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/TDRUD/pages/295665665
Insource/Outsource Partners
Information about TDL’s partners can be found here: https://www.tdl.org/about-tdl/partners/
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.
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) provides a vital part of the TDL’s preservation infrastructure for the TDL. http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/
TDL members may use DSpace repositories and DuraCloudTM digital preservation management systems primarily developed by Lyrasis).
The Public Knowledge Project leads the open-source development of Open Journal System, which is used as the basis for for TDL’s journal hosting service.
Other Relevant Information
re3data.org profile: https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100012385
OTHER REGISTRIES HERE