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The Open Data Repositorys Data PublisherData management and data publication are becoming increasingly important components of researcher's workflows. The complexity of managing data, publishing data online, and archiving data has not decreased significantly even as computing access and power has greatly increased. The Open Data Repository's Data Publisher software strives to make data archiving, management, and publication a standard part of a researcher's workflow using simple, web-based tools and commodity server hardware. The publication engine allows for uploading, searching, and display of data with graphing capabilities and downloadable files. Access is controlled through a robust permissions system that can control publication at the field level and can be granted to the general public or protected so that only registered users at various permission levels receive access. Data Publisher also allows researchers to subscribe to meta-data standards through a plugin system, embargo data publication at their discretion, and collaborate with other researchers through various levels of data sharing. As the software matures, semantic data standards will be implemented to facilitate machine reading of data and each database will provide a REST application programming interface for programmatic access. Additionally, a citation system will allow snapshots of any data set to be archived and cited for publication while the data itself can remain living and continuously evolve beyond the snapshot date. The software runs on a traditional LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) server and is available on GitHub (http://github.com/opendatarepository) under a GPLv2 open source license. The goal of the Open Data Repository is to lower the cost and training barrier to entry so that any researcher can easily publish their data and ensure it is archived for posterity.
Document ID
20150023445
Acquisition Source
Ames Research Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Stone, N.
(Open Data Repository Gray, ME, United States)
Lafuente, B.
(Arizona Univ. Tucson, AZ, United States)
Downs, R. T.
(Arizona Univ. Tucson, AZ, United States)
Blake, D.
(NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA United States)
Bristow, T.
(NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA United States)
Fonda, M.
(NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA United States)
Pires, A.
(Arizona Univ. Tucson, AZ, United States)
Date Acquired
December 23, 2015
Publication Date
December 14, 2015
Subject Category
Documentation And Information Science
Report/Patent Number
ARC-E-DAA-TN26286
Meeting Information
Meeting: AGU Fall Meeting
Location: San Francisco, CA
Country: United States
Start Date: December 14, 2015
End Date: December 18, 2015
Sponsors: American Geophysical Union
Funding Number(s)
WBS: WBS 811073
CONTRACT_GRANT: NNX11AP82A
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.
Keywords
Astrobiology data
Data archiving software
Databases
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