Expansion of the Odum Institute Dataverse Network: Forming Partnerships, Harnessing Infrastructures, and increasing Preservation of Research Data

In this poster, we will summarize the expansion of the Odum Institute Dataverse Network (DVN) to support new inter-institutional and inter-disciplinary collaborations. The Odum Institute and the North Carolina Online Collection of Knowledge and Scholarship (NC DOCKS) group have formed an inter-institutional collaboration to address data management needs of researchers within NC DOCKS schools. This collaboration allows researchers, assisted by institutional library staff, to deposit data into Dataverses hosted by the Odum Institute Dataverse Network (DVN) thereby ensuring research data is properly preserved and accessible. Odum is also expanding the Odum DVN to support multi-disciplinary research data. Odum recently formed a partnership with the Orofacial Pain: Prospective Evaluation and Risk Assessment (OPPERA) study investigators. This partnership will allow the Odum data archive staff, in collaboration with the OPPERA team, to deposit phenotype and genotype data into the DVN as a preservation strategy. These expansions of the DVN show the growing role of collaboration in data management and preservation and the opportunities to harness current infrastructures and grow partnerships instead of creating institutional and discipline-based silos.