Sustaining the momentum, moving the DataVault project to a service

The challenges of implementing a service for long term storage and management of research data that is both resilient and integrated into a wider research data management service will be discussed, focusing on:

How the DataVault service fits into the wider Research Data Service portfolio of the University of Edinburgh.

How the DataVault is being implemented as a sustainable service, including: policy decisions and pilot users.

The challenges and decisions made to ensure the sustainability of research data deposits to the DataVault, including infrastructure decisions, review processes, system interoperability, and metadata.

How the development of the project in the open between two partner institutions has impacted the software development.