User guide

“depositar” is a public platform for storing, preserving, managing, and exploring research data. depositar is built with CKAN, which is an open source data management system, and extended with many useful features. The site is located at https://data.depositar.io.

This user guide covers using CKAN’s web interface to organize, publish and find data. CKAN also has a powerful API (machine interface), which makes it easy to develop extensions and links with other information systems. The API is documented in http://docs.ckan.org/en/2.7/api/index.html.

Some web UI features relating to site administration are available only to users with sysadmin status, and are documented in http://docs.ckan.org/en/2.7/sysadmin-guide.html.

Note

This manual is translated and adapted from User guide — CKAN 2.7.6 documentation by Open Knowledge International and contributors licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported.

• What is CKAN?
  • Datasets and resources

Using depositar

• Registering and logging in
• Features for publishers
  • Adding a new dataset
  • Extended feature — Add a dataset to an existing topic
  • Extended feature — Fill-in snippet
  • Editing a dataset
  • Dataset collaborators
  • Adding, deleting and editing resources
  • Deleting a dataset
  • Creating a project
  • Managing a project
  • Inviting others to project
• Finding data
  • Searching the site
  • Extended feature — Temporal search
  • Extended feature — Spatial search
  • Searching within a project
  • Exploring datasets
  • Extended feature — Citing a Dataset
  • Extended feature — Data preview and visualization
• Data API
• RDF Serializations
  • Method 1: RDF Endpoints
  • Method 2: Content Negotiation
  • Example
• ARK Persistent Identifier
  • The Criteria for Assigning ARKs
  • Linking to Dataset via ARK
  • ARK Identifier Metadata (ERC)
  • Defunct ARK Identifier
• Personalization
  • Managing your news feed
  • Managing your user profile
• System Limitation