Betsy Gunia
Data Management Consultant
Johns Hopkins University
Barbara Pralle
Head, Entrepreneurial Library Program
Johns Hopkins University
Since our inception in July 2011, Johns Hopkins University Data Management Services has been offering a single data archiving service focused on support for data collections of any size and number of files from a single grant. As we listened to our research community, we recognized that some researchers desired us to offer an additional service that was more tightly coupled with the publication process. We began offering this new service, “Small Collections Archiving Service,” starting in July 2014. During this project briefing we will elaborate on the work involved in developing this new service, including how we scoped the service, assessed the required human effort, and considered the different types of data collections and researchers’ needs this model would accommodate. In addition, we will discuss how we came up with a cost for this service, vetted it with various stakeholders within our community, and marketed it. Although we have not yet completed a data deposit using this new service, we have archived data sets for other researchers under our other service model, which is similar in scope to the Small Data Collections Archiving Service.
http://dmp.data.jhu.edu/preserve-share-research-data/archiving-services-we-offer/
