Project makeover TAGS: JISC | JISC Data Vault Now that the Data Vault project has received second round finding, we thought it was time for a makeover! We’ve been working hard with our designers, and now have a …Continue reading →

Data Vault receives round 2 funding! TAGS: JISC | JISC Data Vault We’re pleased to announce that following the second round of project pitching in London on the 13th and 14th of July, the Data Vault project has been awarded further funding. …Continue reading →

Month 2 project meeting TAGS: API | data library | JISC | JISC Data Spring | JISC Data Vault The Data Vault project is three months long, and is a collaboration between the universities of Edinburgh and Manchester.  Due to the short nature of the project, we have decided …Continue reading →

Data Vault storage considerations TAGS: JISC | JISC Data Spring | JISC Data Vault | metadata The Data Vault service is a system that joins up two sets of storage: fast, expensive, high quality active research storage, and slow, cheap, archival-quality long term storage.  The Data …Continue reading →

Describing and Packaging data TAGS: JISC | JISC Data Spring | JISC Data Vault | metadata The concept of the Data Vault service is to take research data that is no longer being actively used, and to archive it in long-term archival storage.  In order to …Continue reading →