Repository Resilience

This project, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, is dedicated to generating crucial insights into how disruptions in data access affect researchers, data managers, and community response efforts.

By collecting and analyzing targeted data, we aim to refine the Repository Crisis Scorecards (RCS), an existing tool designed through work of the ESIP Sustainable Data Management Cluster to measure data repository resiliency. The project’s ultimate goal is to strengthen the resilience of data repositories and to improve the tools used to assess that resilience. We will produce actionable guidance, including a white paper and updated tools, to help repositories, funders, and policymakers strengthen data infrastructure and build resilience against future crises.