Optimizing Active Research Data Management Workflows through to Preservation

Academia has seen a dramatic increase in the number of data generated during the last few years, and a similar jump in the number data repositories created to expose and store that content. With this growing awareness around data creation and reuse, we at figshare needed to provide certain assurances to our userbase and to our partners in the academic community around data availability. As is the key with most infrastructure, the best infrastructure is invisible to the end user, and so we worked with service providers and our institutional partners to ensure that data published on figshare is available for reuse by future generations of researchers. This talk will highlight different ways figshare and the archiving and preservation community are leveraging existing technologies to preserve research outputs on the platform.