A Pilot Project to Manage Kepler-Derived Data in a Digital Object Repository

Abstract

Staff at the Research Library at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) worked with LANL astrophysicists to archive data derived from Kepler Mission observations. The collaboration archived and preserved secondary data products so they could be linked with the research papers about the data. The large data volume, storage needed, and access issues dictated the need for the long-term management of the data. These data were used to classify stars, which were analyzed to determine more about their structure and makeup. This collaboration formed the basis of a pilot project, which used the DSpace digital object repository software.

KEYWORDS:

• libraries
• data management
• scientific data
• digital repositories
• metadata

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

We would like to say a special thanks to Adrian Romero, who is the systems administrator for the DSpace repository and who also wrote the scripts to create the batch uploads.