In most Data Management and Sharing plans you are required to indicate what repository you have chosen to share your data. LibraData, UVA's Dataverse repository, meets the desirable characteristics of repositories for managing and sharing data resulting from federally funded or supported research. See the next section for specifics.
You can use the language below to describe LibraData, the University of Virginia's data repository, in your data management and sharing plan:
LibraData can help you meet the data sharing requirements of federal grants, as it meets most of the United States Office of Science and Technology Policy OSTP desirable characteristics of data repositories. Each of the characteristics in the document are organized into four main themes and each section below lists the categories within that theme and how LibraData, UVA's Dataverse repository, specifically meets these requirements. For a quick look, check out our chart on how LibraData meets the desirable characteristics.
LibraData is publicly accessible and free to submitters as well as users of the data. Practices and policies are in place for privacy and ethical practices. Sensitive data is not allowed on LibraData.
LibraData is publicly accessible and does not implement a data use committee. By default LibraData deposits are under the CC-0 open access license and if a depositor has chosen a different terms, it is clearly indicated on the dataset's page.
LibraData abides by the robust policies, procedures, and standards of the University, including identifying appropriate data security level and system security level in order to apply the appropriate Information Security Standards for access and monitoring.
The Library is committed to the durability and sustainability of scholarship deposited in Libra. LibraData uses standard data management practices, including security and backup procedures, to provide a reasonable assurance that files will remain retrievable over time.
LibraData content is preserved in Academic Preservation Trust, digital preservation system, and managed according to industry best practices for stewardship.
Once published the dataset is assigned a DataCite-generated DOI. If datasets are "deaccessioned" DOI points to a tombstone page with reason for deaccessioning.
LibraData conforms to the FAIR principles with appropriate level of metadata for purposes of reuse and discovery. The repository uses DDI (Data Document Initiative) standard formetadata submission and discovery . Datasets in LibraData are discoverable via OAI-PMH in Harvard's Dataverse and in Google Dataset Search, as well as the University of Virginia's Library Catalog. Metadata can be exported in a variety of other metadata standards and formats (DDI, Dubin Core, Schema.org, DataCite, OpenAIRE, and JSON).
Librarians in the Scholarly Communication Services and Research Data Services teams provide curation and quality assurance when asked.
Each LibraData dataset's citation, including its DOI, metadata and terms of reuse is clearly identified on each dataset page. Downloads for each dataset and file are clearly displayed on each dataset page.
LibraData is an open repository where anyone can download files and metadata regardless of affiliation. When possible, research data in proprietary formats are accompanied by alternative open formats. Metadata is available through an API in various formats (including JSON format) and OAI-PMH harvesting of the repository.
Dataset versioning tracks any metadata or file changes. LibraData also support data provenance to record where the original data came from and any transformations to its current state.
Depositors are authenticated using UVA's single sign-on, and their institutional identity is associated directly with their deposited objects, and with associated DOIs. The metadata has a field for Dataset authors' ORCID.
The University of Virginia Libraries has invested in full-time staff roles in research data management, repository support, and digital preservation. We have in-house IT expertise. UVA uses Amazon Web Services. AWS provides future-proof technology and migrates data to new infrastructure as technology changes.
LibraData uses AWS’s security infrastructure, including backups, firewalls, network controls, and access and tampering monitoring. Repository doesn’t provide documentation, but there are guidelines as to what data is allowed on LibraData per the deposit license: https://library.virginia.edu/libra/datasets/public-dataset-license. This deposit license conforms to UVa's Data Protection Policy: https://uvapolicy.virginia.edu/policy/IRM-003
Not applicable - Per the deposit license, LibraData does not host restricted use datasets.
Not applicable - Per the deposit license, LibraData does not accept identifying human participant data.
Data use limitations are documented in LibraData's terms of use.
Not applicable - LibraData only disseminates open access datasets
Not applicable - LibraData only disseminates open access datasets
LibraData follows UVA’s Data Protection of University Information policy https://uvapolicy.virginia.edu/policy/IRM-003.
Violations of terms of use are documented in LibraData's terms of use.
LibraData is also subject to the University’s data polices, see:
The following charts outline how LibraData, UVa's Institutional Repository for data and other products of research, compare and align with Federal Funder agencies' "Desirable Characteristics for Research Data". Details for each characteristic is found here.