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This document sets out criteria for selecting and appraising data collections across the UK Data Service. A coordinated and robust approach to appraisal is required to ensure that: • Acquisition decisions will be based on explicit priorities and criteria which can be justified. • Ingest activitie...

The Collections Development Policy provides an overview of the selection and appraisal criteria applied to the UK Data Service data holdings. It demonstrates a commitment to aligning with and meeting the data needs of our major stakeholder communities, other relevant organisational policies (both...

The report contains general guidelines on how to determine what research data should be preserved for the long term and what data should not. These guidelines can be used by individual researchers or research groups, researchers who co-operate within a collaboratory, research institutes, universi...