[Pasig-discuss] Figshare Joins the Digital Preservation Network (DPN)

[Carol Minton Morris]

*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*

January 20, 2016

Read it online: http://bit.ly/1nxYV2H
Contact: Mary Molinaro, DPN Chief Operating Officer - mary at dpn.org
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Dan Valen, Figshare Product Specialist - dan at figshare.com
<dan at figshare.com?subject=Figshare%20Joins%20the%20Digital%20Preservation%20Network%20(DPN)>

*Figshare Joins the Digital Preservation Network (DPN) to ensure survival,
ownership, and management of research data into the future*

*Ann Arbor, MI*  The Digital Preservation Network (DPN) is pleased to
announce that Figshare, a platform that supports the management of research
content, is the first research data repository to join the DPN Federation.
Research data made public on Figshare will be deposited into DPN, a dark
archive that preserves scholarship for future generations. Figshare users
can guarantee that long-term access to their scholarly resources will be
protected in the event of any type of change in administrative or physical
institutional environments.

Figshare will use the DuraSpace DuraCloud Vault (http://duracloudvault.org)
deposit node to add their content into DPN to preserve its public corpus of
multi-disciplinary data. The multi-scale DPN approach to stored content by
leveraging a heterogeneous network that spans diverse geographic,
environmental, and political climates will enable the secure, long-term
preservation of Figshare content, which will ultimately reside under
control of the academy.

DPN depositors add assets to the network by working with a DPN ingest Node
which serves as an interim access point for resources that will be added to
the network. Current DPN members may now add add digital assets to the
Digital Preservation Network through DuraCloud Vault, a cooperative
development between DPN, DuraSpace and Chronopolis.

The partnership also allows for further integration with Figshare for
Institutions for existing DPN members and will provide additional options
for how to store and preserve research data. Figshare will continue to
provide the same level of service and end user experience while users can
rest easy knowing that their content is preserved in DPN, a trusted digital
preservation service.

 “The commitment that Figshare is making to the academic enterprise by
depositing their users’ public data into DPN can not be overstated.
Extending the spectrum of preserved academic output for the future to
explicitly include research data is an important step forward for the
community,” says Mary Molinaro, DPN Chief Operating Officer and Services
Manager.  “It is our hope that other data repositories follow Figshare’s
lead.”

“At Figshare, we’re held to high standards regarding the research data
hosted on the platform. By partnering with DPN, we’re providing further
assurances to our community that their public data will be preserved and in
safe hands under the stewardship of DPN,” says founder and CEO, Mark
Hahnel.

*About Figshare*

Figshare (https://figshare.com) is an online digital repository where
researchers can preserve and share their research outputs, including
figures, datasets, code, images, videos, and more. It is free to upload
content and free to access, all in adherence to the principle of open data.
Users can upload files in any format and items are attributed a DOI for
citation and attention tracking via altmetrics. By encouraging publishing
of figures, charts, data rather than being limited to the traditional
entire 'paper', knowledge can be shared more quickly and effectively in a
transparent, reusable fashion. Figshare is a portfolio company of Digital
Science.

*About the Digital Preservation Network (DPN)*

The Digital Preservation Network (http://www.dpn.org) is a membership
organization that is sponsored by Internet2, is the only large-scale
digital preservation service that is built to last beyond the life spans of
individuals, technological systems, and organizations. Like insurance, the
DPN service provides members of the academy and their successors with a
guarantee that future access to their scholarly resources will be available
in the event of any type of change in administrative or physical
institutional environments. By establishing a redundant and varied
technical and legal infrastructure at multiple administrative levels the
survival, ownership and management of preserved digital content in the
future is assured for Digital Preservation Network members.
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