Smoothing the ingest of data
Read this report from the ADR UK Task and Finish Group to find out more about smoothing the ingest of data across the four UK nations.
About the report
ADR UK’s mission is to bridge the gap between government and academia, to ensure good policy decisions from good quality evidence that addresses social and economic problems, leading to more effective public services and improving lives. This mission hinges on the preparation and provisioning of data for research.
Analysts across the ADR UK programme and beyond work to extract, process and curate public sector data and make it accessible to researchers in national trusted research environments (TREs). While each dataset, information asset owner, and organisation will be slightly different, the data processes can be made broadly replicable, with learning and best practice that can be shared across organisations. ADR UK directed that an ADR UK Ingest Improvement Task and Finish Group be formed to explore the above.
The initial purpose of the group was to summarise and evaluate data ingest processes across the four UK nations, identify lessons learnt, highlight areas of best practice, and inform potential improvements in the ingest processes. The scope and remit set out in the group’s terms of reference was to focus on the data ingest processes from the point of extracting data from Government and/or public bodies into national TREs. To examine the processes for preparing the data for indexing, and any further processing required prior to ingestion into the TRE.
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