Research Data Toolkit: Tools

Global registry of research data repositories. Consolidates Databib and re3data.org registries. Broad subject area coverage including the humanities, sciences, medicine, and technology. Useful for finding appropriate repositories to store and access data sets.

NIH-supported data repositories that make data accessible for reuse. Most accept submissions of appropriate data from NIH-funded investigators (and others), but some restrict data submission to only those researchers involved in a specific research network.

Key characteristics of the Carolina Digital Repository, UNC ITS Research Computing storage, UNC Dataverse, Dryad and Qualitative Data Repository.

Considerations for selecting a data repository.

CDART is a rigorous, web-based data collection tool developed, maintained and used by the UNC Collaborative Studies Coordinating Center (https://sites.cscc.unc.edu/cscc/). It is the Center's comprehensive research data management solution, providing fully-paperless data acquisition, industry-leading validation, simple extraction, and powerful reporting.

REDCap is a secure web application that can be used to build and manage case report forms, surveys and other data capture mechanisms for clinical research. REDCap is user-friendly; with a small amount of training, you can build your own forms and reports and manage your own study data. REDCap at UNC is managed by the North Carolina Translational & Clinical Sciences Institute (NC TraCS) (https://tracs.unc.edu).

"Integrated Digital Archiving of files and email for long-term preservation and to optimize storage utilization."

scientists at the University of Southampton have developed a system used by chemists, physicists, engineers and others based on an open source data centric laboratory blog system.

"Java Enterprise application for visualisation, management, and analysis of biological image data."

Meta-site indexing metadata standards. Enables searching for a standard by discipline or format and includes profiles, tools to implement the standards and use cases of data repositories currently implementing them. The author, the Digital Curation Centre, is U.K.-based.

Produced by expert members of the international DDI Working Group on Qualitative Data following two dedicated DDI meetings in 2011 and 2012, this paper represents an inclusive and relational model for complex data collections arising from qualitative and mixed methods research..