Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
At month 50 of a 48-month project, the consortium completes archive-phase activities: depositing datasets in Zenodo, assigning DOIs, and lodging records with the institutional archive.
- Is an instance
An NIH grantee completes the archive phase by depositing final datasets and documentation in the appropriate repository.
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
Active execution of research is not archive.
- Not an instance
Closeout-period financial reporting is not archive.
Editorial commentary
The archive phase formalises long-term stewardship of project outputs after closeout reporting is complete. Activities include data deposit (in domain repositories, institutional repositories, or FAIR data services), code deposit (Zenodo, GitHub long-lived branches), final document preservation (institutional records system), and dataset registration with DOI. Funder data-sharing policies (NIH DMS Policy, Horizon Europe Open Research Data) set baseline expectations. Embedded compliance with retention periods (e.g., 7 to 10 years post-project for many sponsors) is enforced through archival.
References
- NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy 2023; Horizon Europe Open Research Data Pilot.
Also known as
Preservation phase · Post-closeout archival · Long-term archive phase
Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
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