1. Open Access week – October 2012 Ian Wellaway

2.  A website where you can submit data and descriptive metadata  Its: ◦ Secure ◦ Robust ◦ Publically accessible (or not if you don’t want it to be) ◦ Archive not backup!

3.  Free safe storage – better than on a: ◦ PC ◦ Laptop ◦ Pen drive ◦ CD/DVD ◦ External hard drive ◦ Third party storage  Backed up every night  Your funder  Accessible by others  Handle – unique identifer (URI)  Searchable via search engines (Google, etc)

4.  Demonstration - eda.exeter.ac.uk ◦ Using the ‘out of the box’ submission process

5.  Remembers details of a previous submission  Allows faster selection of multiple files and or folders  Uploads very large files  Aimed release: early 2013

6.  The Dark archive...Dar-kive? ◦ Data not publically accessible ◦ Still securely stored ◦ Same submission process

7.  Good question – what do you think?  Competition

8.  Ian Wellaway ◦ Infrastructure Systems, Exeter IT ◦ i.j.wellaway@exeter.ac.uk i.j.wellaway@exeter.ac.uk