DesignSafe Data Depot Repository

Name of repository

DesignSafe Data Depot Repository

Additional name(s)

• A Repository Infrastructure for Natural Hazards Datasets
• DDR

Repository URL

https://www.designsafe-ci.org/

Subject(s)

• Humanities and Social Sciences
• Social and Behavioural Sciences
• Social Sciences
• Engineering Sciences
• Computer Science, Systems and Electrical Engineering
• Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
• Construction Engineering and Architecture
• Construction Engineering and Architecture
• Geotechnics, Hydraulic Engineering

Description

The DesignSafe Data Depot Repository (DDR) is the platform for curation and publication of datasets generated in the course of natural hazards research. The DDR is an open access data repository that enables data producers to safely store, share, organize, and describe research data, towards permanent publication, distribution, and impact evaluation. The DDR allows data consumers to discover, search for, access, and reuse published data in an effort to accelerate research discovery. It is a component of the DesignSafe cyberinfrastructure, which represents a comprehensive research environment that provides cloud-based tools to manage, analyze, curate, and publish critical data for research to understand the impacts of natural hazards. DesignSafe is part of the National Science Foundation -supported Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI), and aligns with its mission to provide the natural hazards research community with open access, shared-use scholarship, education, and community resources aimed at supporting civil and social infrastructure prior to, during, and following natural disasters. It serves a broad national and international audience of natural hazard researchers (both engineers and social scientists), students, practitioners, policy makers, as well as the general public. It has been in operation since 2016, and also provides access to legacy data dating from about 2005. These legacy data were generated as part of the NSF-supported Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES), a predecessor to NHERI. Legacy data and metadata belonging to NEES were transferred to the DDR for continuous preservation and access. As of 2023 DDR is a Core Trust Seal Certified Repository.

Contact(s)

• administrative: maria@tacc.utexas.edu

Content type(s)

• dataset
• experimental data
• geospatial data
• measurement and test data
• observational data
• simulation data
• survey data
• image
• moving image
• research software
• text

Start date

2023-01-27

End date

2026-01-26

Keyword(s)

• computational modeling tools
• cyberinfrastructure
• data dictionaries
• earthquake
• experiments
• field research
• hazard
• hybrid simulations
• natural hazard event reports
• research software
• simulations
• social sciences
• storm surge
• wind engineering
• windstorm

Persistent identifier(s) of the repository

• FAIRsharing:10.25504/FAIRsharing.6a3ef8

Repository size

Multi-petabyte data

Repository type(s)

• disciplinary

Mission statement for designated community

https://www.designsafe-ci.org/user-guide/datadepotrepo/about/#mission

Research data repository language(s)

• English

Data and/or service provider

• dataProvider
• serviceProvider