Deposit data

Overview

Environmental data collected by Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) funded scientists must be offered to a recognised data centre to ensure appropriate long-term curation and future usability. For data collected in polar regions the UK Polar Data Centre is usually the appropriate data centre.

Data Acceptance

The NERC Enivornmental Data Service Acquisition Policy covers covers the acquisition, curation, and dissemination of environmental data, and the criteria for acceptance. The UK Polar Data Centre’s remit is described in our data acceptance procedure.

Data Transfer Agreement

Those submitting data must complete a Data Transfer Agreement and Metadata Guidance document as part of the deposit process. The Data Transfer Agreement sets out the UK PDC and the Depositor’s responsibilities with regards to transferring, sharing and distributing data. We cannot accept data until we have received a signed copy of the Data Transfer Agreement.

Metadata requirements

All datasets require associated metadata, and researchers are asked to provide this using the Metadata Guidance template. Find out more about writing good metadata here. 

Data deposit workflow

The data deposit process is covered in the workflow below. Click on the links to find further guidance and information about each step. 

Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) and embargo

Please note, we can issue DOIs for the data (needed by most journals at the time of submitting a paper) whilst holding the data under embargo, tying in its release with that of the associated paper.

Contact

Email: PDCServiceDesk@bas.ac.uk