| Suitable for Archive |
Not suitable |
| 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.
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| 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. |