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Open Scholarship and Educational Resources on DataHub

What We Offer

What We Offer

The Research Data Services team at the HKU Libraries is committed to assist individual researchers and members of faculties, departments, units, and students at HKU to best manage, preserve, and publish their project data on the HKU institutional data repository, with an aim to help the HKU community adopt open practices in both scientific research and education. 

HKU community members can have their data of on-going projects or completed projects hosted on HKU DataHub for collaborations, archival purposes and/or long-term access. The below lists the services that we could provide.

Services

Migrating past and current project data to DataHub

If you have pre-existing project data that would like to be migrated onto DataHub from another location, e.g. harddisk, cloud drive, database, etc., please contact the Research Data Services team for consultation. As we understand that different projects may have a different nature and unique requirements for data preservation, we would assist to provide advice in ensuring a smooth migration process.

Setting up customized pages on DataHub for projects or initiatives

The Research Data Services team could assist to establish a customized collection page for your digital project with your choice of the background image and page logo on DataHub. Once the specialized page is established, faculty, department or unit members and students can collaborate on DataHub by creating project folders under the page and inviting project members as editors or viewers for individual folders. You can freely define your file structure and accessibility of individual file items. When the project has been completed, project collaborators can publish any items inside the folders for public access, and also return to the records at anytime in the future for updates.

 

Please contact the Research Data Services team directly for requesting a customized page and space for your digital project. You may also submit your choice of background image and logo for your project page. Please note the required standards for the images:

Please refer to a sample collapsed view of your background image in this example:

Training and Consultation 

We welcome any enquiries regarding depositing and publishing your projects and educational resources on HKU DataHub.  HKU researchers can make an appointment with our Librarian for a discussion. We would be delighted to offer consultation advice, suggested practices, or customized training (on request) to assist you and your team in preserving your data using DataHub.

Interested parties please contact the Research Data Services team via Email-a-Librarian (select To: "Research Data" on the form).