The ADS is an accredited digital repository and data that’s deposited with us is available open access via our archives or library but what actually happens to the data?
First off, it depends on how the data is deposited with us and what the end state of the data will be but it also depends on what kind of data has been deposited.
Each deposit method has varying amounts of manual checks done to the data by archivists with large deposits requiring the most checks and OASIS requiring the least.
For reports that have been deposited via OASIS, minimal additional checks are done by archivists into the contents of the reports as the reports themselves are checked via OASIS both programmatically and through an approval process. Similarly, ADS-easy has a number of checks built into the system but it then becomes the archivist’s job to check the actual data submitted. Large datasets on the other hand require nearly all checks to be completed by an archivist.
But what are these ‘checks’?
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