ZivaHub’s mission is to make the research data captured by the University of Cape Town staff and students FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable). Its objective is to ensure that such data remains accessible to researchers and the public from around the world, and preserve it for future generations.
Welcome to the ZivaHub Guide. This Guide will provide information on processes, procedures, policy and workflows with regards to the repository. ZivaHub: Open Data UCT , is an online, institutional data repository that serves as a publishing and access platform to research data and scholarly outputs. It is powered by Figshare for Institutions and is available to all students and staff at UCT. Ziva is the Shona word for knowledge.
ZivaHub allows you to make your research data FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable). Some of the key features of the system are:
This guide is also intended to support the UCT community in effective research data management at the 'sharing and publishing' stage of the Research Data Lifecycle. This guide is developed by the Digital Library Services Department
ZivaHub is a place to make all your research data citable, shareable, and discoverable. It’s a place to share your supplementary research to make them first class outputs. Share both positive and negative results and get credit for all your research.
The most important things about ZivaHub, powered by figshare:
Your research is assigned a DOI. This means you can cite it as a research output alongside your paper or as a freestanding piece of data
In publishing any research output on ZivaHub, you are accepting the UCT terms of data deposit .
After you upload, publish and accept the terms of deposit on ZivaHub, your dataset will go into review by a Digital Library Services curator, before being openly published on the platform. In collaboration with a designated Data Steward from your department, the DLS curator will check the metadata of the submitted item and, if appropriate, offer suggestions on how it may be improved upon for optimal citability, discoverability, integrity and reusability.
All published items on ZivaHub qualify for preservation on UCT's Digital Preservation System Izolo.
If you would like to find out more about Research Data Management and Creating Data Management Plans see our RDM Libguide
Thandokazi Maceba (Data Curation Officer)
Level 7, Chancellor Oppenheimer Library
Library Road, Upper Campus
Email: thandokazi.maceba@uct.ac.za
Tel: 021-650-7073
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Sanjin Muftic (Digital Scholarship Specialist)
Level 7, Chancellor Oppenheimer Library
Library Road, Upper Campus
Email: sanjin.muftic@uct.ac.za
Tel: 021-650-5537