The common theme of Data Conservancy’s efforts is recognizing the need for institutional and community solutions to digital research data collection, curation and preservation challenges. DC tools and services incentivize scientists and researchers to participate in these data curation efforts by adding value to existing data and allowing the full potential of data integration and discovery to be realized.
The D-Net Software Kit is an Open Source service-oriented solution for the construction of customized Data Infrastructures. Data Infrastructures address the need increasingly manifested by research communities to operate over the integration of content collected from several information sources (such as institutional repositories endowed with OAI-PMH interfaces, or archives of research data).
ViDaaS (Virtual Infrastructure with Database as a Service) comprises of two separate elements. DaaS is a web based system that enables researchers to quickly and intuitively build an online database from scratch, or import an existing database. The virtual infrastructure (VI) is an infrastructure which enables the DaaS to function within a cloud computing environment.