Preparing Your Data
Find out the steps to take to get your data ready to deposit
Deposit Data
Sharing your data via ISSDA ensures that your data will be professionally curated, will be easily accessible to users now and in the future, and will help to increase the impact and visibility of your own research.
Why Deposit Data?
Sharing your data via ISSDA ensures that your data will be professionally curated, will be easily accessible to users now and in the future, and will help to increase the impact and visibility of your own research.
ISSDA uses Dataverse, an open source software developed by Harvard University, for our data archive - the ISSDA Dataverse [link to ISSDA Dataverse]
ISSDA supports Open Science, and provides options for depositors to make their data ‘as open as Possible, as closed as necessary’ through Open Access and Restricted Access licences.
Sharing data with ISSDA allows you to comply with funders requirements for FAIR data, by making your data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable.
Findable – Datasets are assigned a data study unique study number on ingest and a persistent identifier in the form of a DataCiteDOI on publication. This persistent identifier is included in the data citation generated by the ISSDA Dataverse enabling users to cite the data and credit the data creators. Datasets are described by rich metadata which complies with international standards for the social sciences.
Accessible – Metadata is openly available even where there are access restrictions for the data. If a dataset is removed a tombstone metadata record remains.
Interoperable – ISSDA utilises recommended file formats for statistical data in the social sciences. Metadata is created using international standards set by the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) and Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA ERIC).
Reusable – ISSDA ensures data is reusable by ensuring adequate documentation is provided with data studies to support data interpretation and reuse. ISSDA requires file formats that conform to community norms. Data is clearly licenced so others know what kinds of reuse are permitted.
(opens in a new window)Find our more about the FAIR Principles and making your data FAIR in the (opens in a new window)CESSDA Data Management Expert Guide
Who Can Deposit?
We acquire data from academic, research bodies and public sector sources, supporting:
- Archival preservation
- Secondary use and analysis for research
- Teaching and learning use
- Replication and validation of research
We are happy to discuss any offers of data that come within the thematic scope of the ISSDA collections; broadly, these relate to Irish society and include the societal aspects of environmental and medical data.
Please see the ISSDA Collection Development Policy for an outline for the scope of our collections and criteria for evaluating datasets.
Deposit Data Links
