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Romanian Social Data Archive (RODA)
Identification
Hosting Legal Entity
University of Bucharest
Location
1, Schitu Magureanu Bd., Bucharest, PO: 050025 (Romania)
Structure
Type Of RI
Virtual
Coordinating Country
Romania
Status
Status
Current Status:
Operational since 2001
Timeline
Being upgraded since 2012 to 2014
Scientific Description
The Romanian Social Data Archive is a web resource for both data users and data producers, where data from the social science research is preserved for the long term and disseminated to reuse the data for secondary analysis.RODA also provides expertise in social science methodology, for data discovery purposes and best practise in research data management.

RI Keywords
Comparative research, Data archiving
Classifications
RI Category
Data Archives, Data Repositories and Collections
Scientific Domain
Social Sciences
Services
Long-term data archiving

Support for data producers in preserving research data for long term usage, independent of the initial format or Operating System.

Data dissemination

Support for researchers looking for data for secondary analysis and methodological advice on finding the relevant data.

Equipment
Servers and storage

Powerful servers for storage, backup, database, web and email, all with a rackable UPS. Along with at least 16TB of storage on each server, the data is also backed up using an LTO Drive. The system is also equipped with a network storage with a capacity of 30TB.

Collaborations
Networks
Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives
Date of last update: 24/10/2013
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