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URL
| http://www.datafirst.uct.ac.za/ | |
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Description
| DataFirst is a data service dedicated to making South African and other African survey and administrative microdata available to researchers and policy analysts. They promote high quality research by providing the essential research infrastructure for discovering and accessing data and by developing skills among prospective users, particularly in South Africa
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Organisation
| University of Cape Town
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Type of service
| Storage facility | |
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Legislation
| South Africa
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Usage and appreciation
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Support organisation
| A helpdesk is available: http://www.datafirst.uct.ac.za/services/online-helpdesk
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Stage in the research project
| After | |
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Postion within the research process | 4. Preserving data, 5. Giving access to data, 6. Re-using data | |
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Domain
| 5. Public Domain | |
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Type of data
| 1. Raw data and data sets, 2. Data collections and structured databases | |
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Data curation | 3. Ingest, 4. Preservation action, 5. Store, 6. Acces, use and re-use | |
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Data classification
| Klasse 3 voor openbare informatie | |
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Funding
| Grants and University of Cape Town
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Depositor agreement
| See http://www.datafirst.uct.ac.za/services/deposit-data
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User agreement
| License agreements deal largely with breaches of confidentiality. Publication of personal information would result in researchers organisations being liable to prosecution but we have not had any cases of this since the establishment of the service so do not know how the censures would be managed in practice.
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Policy
| See http://www.datafirst.uct.ac.za/about-us/mission-statement
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Intellectual property
| Resides with data producer
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Data curation strategy
| Described at http://www.datafirst.uct.ac.za/images/docs/8-20131024-datafirst-data-curation-model-v4.pdf | |
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Faculty
| General | |
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Primary target group
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Secondary target group
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Availability
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Integrity
| http://www.datafirst.uct.ac.za/services/data-curation-process | |
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Confidentiality
| Our Secure Data Service gives researchers the opportunity to analyse sensitive restricted-access datasets usually not available for reuse. This includes person- and institution-level data or data at low levels of geography which is potentially disclosive, with the possibility of individual respondents being identified and this information published by researchers. The SDS allows accredited researchers to use the data in a Secure Research Data Centre at the University of Cape Town.
| See http://www.datafirst.uct.ac.za/services/secure-data-services |
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Accepted metadata formats
| DDI | |
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Accepted content types
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Accepted preferred formats
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Accepteerde file formats
| Data files in ASCII and all proprietary formats, e.g. Excel, Stata | |
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Maximum size of deposits
| No limit | |
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Version management
| No | |
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Quality control
| Quality checks by the repository | |
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Access requirements
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Tools / Interfaces for access
| OAI-PMH | |
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(Persistent) identifiers
| DOI | |
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Long term guarantees
| The University of Cape Town recently agreed to take a certain amount of financial responsibility for DataFirst, as a university-wide resource. We are funded by grant money so it is through the university taking greater responsibility for supporting our activities that we aim to provide for sustainability. Data resources are finally being seen as part of the University's intellectual assets, as indicated by our Research Office undertaking policymaking for research data management. Thus it is unlikely that an expert organisation such as DataFirst will not continue to be valued and supported financially by our parent body. | |
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Complies with international standards for trusted repositories
| DSA ceritified | |
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Preservation strategy
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Storage
| No | |
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Access
| No | |
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Preservation
| None | |
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Agreements with Leiden University
| None | |
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Risks
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