EP2DC - linking EPrints with research data repositories

Announcing the release of EP2DC, a service that connects an EPrints document repository with a remote data repository. EP2DC allows you to upload datasets to go alongside your articles - e.g. the raw data used for the graphs in your paper. While this is possible with EPrints already, here we have built a Web Service infrastructure that allows the data to be stored remotely - i.e. in a separate data repository. This provides a scalable, federated SOA architecture that we believe will help users, repository owner and developers realise the dream of open access to data. Have a look at http://www.materialsdatacentre.com/, and more specifically on the EP2DC blog @ http://www.materialsdatacentre.com/ep2dc-blog.html Dr Kenji Takeda senior lecturer in Aeronautics at the University of Southampton.