esds website: esds access and preservation
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ESDS has over 28,000 registered
users
ESDS has experienced
99.5% of service availability
2003 – present: 760 new datasets,
updates and editions
ESDS has fielded over 5,500 queries
Almost 2.5m web pages have been accessed during
ESDS’s life
ESDS and the CRS are part of the
one-stop registration
service
•one-stop registration for UK census data, launched August 2002
•extended to ESDS International, June 2003
•one-stop registration for full ESDS services, June 2004
Census Registration Service (CRS)
ESDS preserves over 5,000 datasets
ESDS has 9,000 active users
ESDS has delivered 38,000 datasets to users
ESDS provides datasets via:
• Web download• FTP• Portable media• Online browsing systems
ESDS provides best practice in creating data
via:
• advisory service for ESRC grant applicants
• guidance and updated web information on data management and legal and ethical issues
• programme of outreach events for data creators and depositors
• collaboration with ESRC to implement a workable Datasets Policy
ESDS provides expertise in:• validating consistency and cross-
comparison checking for a wide variety of data
• licensing arrangements, copyright and access conditions
• conversion to formats appropriate for preservation and dissemination
• describing data using international metadata standards (DDI)
• data and documentation conversion to software and hardware independent formats
