Next steps

After you filled out the metadata form you can now validate your metadata by pressing the Validate Metadata button on the right side. If all metadata is set in a right way, you should be able to save the metadata. Your repository is now set up for further steps.

Data editing

Now that you got your RADAR-ID or DOI (weather its archiving or publishing) for your dataset, you have a maximum of 6 months for editing the data. You can now add files or make some changes. After the 6 months passed you won’t be able to edit the dataset anymore.

Review status

You can also go ahead and put your dataset into a reviewing status. While the status of your repository is reviewing you can’t edit anything until the reviewing has ended. RADAR generates a link to your repository which you can send to a reviewer. The dataset can be downloaded only by using this link.

Archiving/publishing

Depending on your choice on the persistent identifier (RADAR-ID or DOI) you should choose weather you want to archive (RADAR-ID) or publish (DOI) it. For both purposes the metadata will be checked for completeness. Depending on what action you’ve chosen, the status of your dataset will switch from pending to archived or published.

For published dataset you can also set an embargo-time of up to one year. The dataset will only be accessible to others after the embargo-time has expired whereas the metadata is already publicly available with a hint to the embargo-time.

For the archived datasets, curators can also define access rights by adding users with access rights to the dataset. Those users can be defined by usernames or e-mail addresses in a free text field.