Your data must be of long-term value to the University. There is a Senior Member of the University who will 'sponsor' the project data and vouch for its provenance and value. |
Your data is not of long-term value and/or there is no Senior Member sponsoring it. |
The data must be owned largely or wholly by the University. |
The data is largely or wholly owned by a third party outside the University. |
Data should be structured and organised in a logical and transparent manner on your local machine. |
Data is unstructured and/or disorganised, perhaps spread across many unrelated directories or partitions on your local machine. |
Data should reside on and be managed from one local machine. |
Data resides on a number of machines. |
Data should be managed by only one or two local login accounts. |
Data is managed by a large number of local users. |
The data should be largely static and unchanging. |
The data is constantly being worked on and updated. |
Once archived, access to the archive should be at most occasional i.e. once a week at most. |
There will be regular access to archive for data retrieval. |
There should be a document that describes the data in sufficient detail, which accompanies the data and is to be archived with it. (The document may be a simple text file.) |
There is no such document or resource. |