EAGER: INSPIRE: Institutional Support for Personal/Institutional Repository Environments

大型科学和工程运动通常从项目开始就考虑数据管理，数据管理的资金已列入项目预算。该提案旨在数据获取和管理策略，以支持学术机构的单个PI或小组研究项目，即所谓的“长尾”数据。这些项目的长期数据管理问题更大，而且特别紧迫。较小的研究项目往往缺乏资金来进行产生数据的研究；数据的管理在过去常常是事后才想到的。由于资助机构现在要求制定数据管理计划，这些问题必须作为提案的一部分加以考虑，但是用于数据管理的资金仍然很少，研究人员仍然需要培养可用的经济资源。在学术机构中，机构存储库（IR）已经成为利用技术改善学术交流的手段，正是IR提供了解决小型项目的数据管理问题的潜力。尽管机构存储库对涉及科学和工程数据管理的所有利益相关者具有广泛的直观吸引力，但它们在实践中得到了非常有限的接受。该提案旨在通过直接满足教师的需求，并为他们提供工具和支持，以开发随后可以联合到IR中的个人存储库，从而增加教师对IR的数据贡献。其策略是降低进入档案设施的门槛，并为研究人员的参与提供激励。更广泛的影响将在两个关键领域实现。首先，通过增加教师和研究人员在国家研究机构生成数据的参与，将加强数据集的存档和保存。其次，除了项目合作伙伴之外，其他机构也可以使用开源软件进行部署，从而提高数据集存档和共享的效率，并使越来越多的参与机构参与其中。该项目还将为作为软件开发人员和数据顾问的本科生和研究生提供研究和培训机会，他们将与教师和其他研究人员互动，作为项目的一部分。

Large-scale science and engineering campaigns have typically considered data management from the inception of the project and funds for data management have been included in the projects' budgets. This proposal is aimed at data acquisition and curation strategies in support of single PI or small group research projects at academic institutions, data in the so-called "long tail". Long-term data management in these projects is much more problematic and particularly acute. Smaller research projects are often strapped for funds to conduct the research that generates the data; management of the data was in the past often an afterthought. With data management plans now being required by funding agencies, the issues must be considered as part of a proposal, but the funding available for date management is still frequently small and economical resources available to researchers still need to be cultivated. At academic institutions, the institutional repository (IR) has emerged as the means of harnessing technology to improve scholarly communication and it is the IR that offers the potential to address the data curation problems of smaller projects. Although institutional repositories have a broad intuitive appeal to all the stakeholders involved with science and engineering data management, they have met with very limited acceptance in practice. This proposal seeks to increase faculty contribution of their data to the IR by appealing to their needs directly and providing them with tools and support for developing personal repositories that can subsequently be federated into the IR. The strategy is to lower the barrier of entry to archiving facilities and to provide incentives for researchers to participate.Broader impacts will be realized in two key areas. First, archive and preservation of datasets will be enhanced by increasing the participation of faculty and researchers generating data at the nation's research institutions. Second, open source software well be available for deployment by other institutions beyond the project's partners thereby increasing the effectiveness of dataset archiving and sharing across a growing set of participating institutions. The project will also offer research and training opportunities to undergraduate and graduate students involved as software developers and data consultants who interact with faculty and other researchers as part of the project.