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 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 – ISSDA creates rich metadata for data studies which is available online through the ISSDA website. Each data study is assigned a unique study number.
Accessible – While there may be access restrictions for the data ISSDA makes the metadata is freely available on the ISSDA website.
Interoperable – ISSDA utilises file formats and metadata that conform to international standards for the social sciences.
Reusable – ISSDA ensures data is reusable by requiring documentation is provided with data studies to support data interpretation and reuse. ISSDA requires file formats that conform to community norms and clearly licences data so others know what kinds of reuse are permitted.
Find our more about making your data FAIR
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.
