Within six months of the pandemic they held their first online COVID-19 data dive with researchers and policy makers across the UK and beyond.
[citation needed] The organisation frequently advise at a national and international level on data governance, ethics and confidentiality.
[9] The latter requires specific approval and training to ensure the appropriate level of security for highly detailed and sensitive data.
Social science research benefits from accountability and transparency, which can usefully be underpinned by high quality and trustworthy data.
The UK Data Service follows a policy of active preservation to ensure the authenticity, reliability and logical integrity of all digital resources while providing usable versions for research, teaching or learning, in perpetuity.
This policy conforms to the OAIS reference model, with additions and alterations specific to the materials held within the UK Data Service collection.
UK Data Service partners have a long history of contributing to best practice in trustworthy repositories.
This demonstrates their expertise to perform all of the relevant activities relating to providing long-term access to data of value to social science researchers.
They also advised on the creation of the SafePod Network (SPN) launched in 2021 that enables wider geographical research access to sensitive data.
The advisory committee for the UK Data Service is the independent body with responsibility to ensure that the investment is developed, managed and maintained in a manner that maximises its benefit as a long-term scientific resource of importance both nationally and internationally.
As an independent body, advisory committee members act as critical friends in relation to the overall shape, academic direction and relevance to policy and practice of the UK Data Service, advising on its general strategy in order for it to achieve its overall objectives.