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Our features
- A fully-bilingual interface and robust documentation in English and French
- DOIs provide a persistent identifier for data citation
- Default allocation of 1TB of repository storage
- Optional embargoes on data and metadata records
- Synchronize research with ORCID profile
- Selectively share data with journal editors, reviewers, and colleagues before public release
- Effortlessly Download Data with the New Zip Feature
- Collaborate on submissions with other FRDR account holders
- Dataset review and ongoing support provided by the FRDR curation team (support@frdr-dfdr.ca)
- Fast and efficient upload and download via Globus File Transfer, and web browser transfers for smaller datasets
- Special Collections for research groups with organizational branding and links to external web content
- Support for multiple authentication providers, including Compute Canada, ORCID, and a growing list of Canadian postsecondary institutions
- Planned feature extension, scheduled releases, and updates
Managed Storage Services
- Managed repository storage, geographically spread across multiple National Advanced Research Computing Host sites
- Regular backups and multiple copies
- Secure repository storage for a minimum of 10 years after deposit
Curation Services
- Researcher consultations and help preparing data for deposit, creating documentation and augmenting metadata to contextualize data
- Internal review of new deposits to help ensure compliance with the FRDR Terms of Use, and to optimize the findability, accessibility and reusability of data published in FRDR
- Quality assurance through metadata inspection, file audit, and code review
- Links to author PIDs (e.g., ORCIDs), funder information, and related research outputs, such as data management plans, data papers, journal articles, associated code repositories, or models.
- Ongoing support provided after publication
Preservation Services
- Bit-level preservation of research data including checksum generation, validation, and keeping multiple copies on geographically distributed storage
- Appraisal and selection of research data for additional long-term preservation processing via Archivematica
- File identification, characterization, and validation
- Format conversion of files via policy registry to future-friendly formats
- Archival Information Package (AIP) creation
- Transfer of AIPs to partnering Preservation Service Providers (SciNet / University of Toronto)
Discovery Services
- Discovery interface with text-based search functionality supported by Globus search
- Openly available OAI-PMH feed of harvested metadata
- Data indexed for discovery in Lunaris, Google Dataset Search, OpenAIRE, DataCite, ProQuest, and others
