The JISC-funded DISC-UK DataShare project has recently released information New Zealand social scientists with an interest in digital repositories may find valuable.

DataShare is a collaborative project led by the University of Edinburgh, to develop a model for the deposit of social science datasets in institutional repositories.

A State-of-the-Art Review has just been written, marking out the current scene on data sharing. While the report is UK-focused, it may be of wider interest to New Zealand social scientists, and has a very thorough bibliography.

DISC-UK is a UK consortium of data support professionals working in departments and academic libraries in universities (Data Information Specialists Committee-United Kingdom). The project is about working with academics and institutional repository managers to provide exemplars for sharing research data within institutional repositories (based on EPrints.org, DSpace and Fedora software).

More information

http://www.disc-uk.org/index.html