Preserving

What is data preservation?

Data preservation consists of a series of activities necessary to ensure safety, integrity and accessibility of data for as long as necessary, even decades. Data preservation is indeed more than just data storage and backup, since data can be stored and backed up without being preserved. Data preservation prevents data from becoming unavailable and unusable over time through appropriate steps.

Ensure data safety and integrity.

Change the file format (format migration) and update software to make sure that they do not become outdated or obsolete.

Change hardware and other storage media (such as paper, magnetic tape, etc.) to avoid degradation.

Ensure that data is organised and described with appropriate metadata and documentation to be always understandable and reusable.

ELIXIR. “RDMkit – Preserving“. 2022.

For details, see RDMkit – Preserving

Researcher tasks anticipated during the preservation phase (external link)

Data organisation

Data security

Data publication

Documentation and metadata

Data storage

Identifiers

Licensing

Support provided by Tokyo University of Foreign Studies during the preservation phase

GakuNin RDM

GakuNin RDM is a research data management system provided by the National Institute of Informatics.