Managing Active Research Data

Function definition: Tools that enable researchers to manage data from its point of creation, facilitating its productive use in the present, but also establishing the support structures necessary to ensure its future survival.

Lifecycle stage: Store

Tools for this function

Tool	Purpose
AudiAnnotate	To make audio and its interpretations more discoverable and usable by extending the use of the newest IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) standard for audio with the development of the AudiAnnotate web application, documented workflows and workshops that will facilitate the use of existing best-of-breed, open source tools for audio annotation (Sonic Visualiser), for public code and document repositories (GitHub), and audio presentation (Universal Viewer) to produce, publish, and sustain shareable W3C Web Annotations for individual and collaborative audio projects.
CND3D	Store, Preserve and publish 3D objects produced in Digital Humanities Research
CRunch	cRunch provides an infrastructure for exploratory data analysis with the statistical programming language and environment R
D-Net Software Kit	Software Kit creates a network of repositories that share the infrastructure services necessary to process and provide access to digital content.
DMPTool	DMPTool is an online service to enable researchers to create data management plans now required by many funding agencies, and to receive tailored institutional guidance to help them in the process.
DMPonline	DMPonline is the DCC's data management planning tool.
Data Vault	A storage broker and front end for archiving research data that is no longer active but that does not have a need for open publication
DataCite	DataCite works with data centres to assign persistent identifiers to datasets using the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) infrastructure.
DataFlow	DataFlow is a two-stage data management infrastructure that is designed to allow researchers to work with, annotate, publish, and permanently store research data.
DataStage	DataStage is a flexible data storage system that provides controlled access, secure backup, and the ability to transfer selected files to a more permanent archiving facility.
Dataverse	The Dataverse is an open source web application to share, preserve, cite, explore and analyze research data.
Kepler	Kepler is a scientific workflow modelling and management system that enables users, regardless of programming experience, to set up data analysis pipelines.
LabTrove	LabTrove is a blogging platform specifically designed for use in a research environment.
MyExperiment	myExperiment is an online social networking service aimed at scientific researchers; the site fosters collaboration by allowing members to share scientific workflows, experiment plans, and other digital objects.
ReDBox	ReDBox and Mint are two complimentary applications designed to create, store, and provide access to research metadata.
Taverna	Taverna is a scientific workflow management system designed to assemble, run, document and share sequences sequences of web services and scripts.
XArch	XArch is an archive management system that allows one to create, populate, and query archives of multiple database versions.