ESDS website: ESDS Access and Preservation.

ESDS website: www.esds.ac.uk

ESDS Access and Preservation

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