Author: Schollar, C.
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THPDP048 SARAO Science Repository: Sustainable Use of MeerKAT Data 1415
 
  • Z. Kukuma, G. Coetzer, R.S. Kupa, C. Schollar
    SARAO, Cape Town, South Africa
 
  Funding: National Research Foundation (South Africa)
The South African Radio As­tron­omy Ob­ser­va­tory (SARAO) is ex­cited to an­nounce the forth­com­ing re­lease of its dig­i­tal repos­i­tory for man­ag­ing and pre­serv­ing as­tro­nom­i­cal data. The repos­i­tory, built using the DSpace plat­form, will allow re­searchers to cat­a­logue and dis­cover re­search data in a stan­dard­ised way, while Dig­i­tal Ob­ject Iden­ti­fiers (DOIs) through the Dat­acite ser­vice will en­sure the unique iden­ti­fi­ca­tion and per­sis­tent ci­ta­tion of data. The data will be hosted on a Ceph archive, which pro­vides re­li­able stor­age and ef­fi­cient re­trieval using the s3 pro­to­col. We are look­ing for­ward to host­ing sci­ence data from any sci­en­tist who has used SARAO in­stru­ments. Re­searchers will be able to apply to host their data on the SARAO dig­i­tal repos­i­tory ser­vice, which will be re­leased in the com­ing month. This repos­i­tory will serve as a crit­i­cal re­source for the as­tron­omy com­mu­nity, pro­vid­ing easy ac­cess to valu­able data for re­search and col­lab­o­ra­tion. With the in­creas­ing de­mand for dig­i­tal preser­va­tion and data ac­ces­si­bil­ity, we be­lieve that the SARAO dig­i­tal repos­i­tory will set a stan­dard for other as­tro­nom­i­cal in­sti­tu­tions to fol­low. We are com­mit­ted to en­sur­ing that our data re­mains avail­able and ac­ces­si­ble for the long term, and we in­vite all in­ter­ested re­searchers to par­tic­i­pate in this ex­cit­ing ini­tia­tive.
 
DOI • reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-THPDP048  
About • Received ※ 05 October 2023 — Revised ※ 12 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 17 December 2023 — Issued ※ 22 December 2023
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