Development and Deployment of Research Data Preservation Policy at a Japanese Research University in 2016

This paper reviews the policy development and deployment for research data preservation at Kyoto University, Japan, during fiscal year (FY) 2016. The university's regulations and guidelines for research integrity and data preservation were formulated in FY2014 and 2015, in response to statements from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and supplemental comments by Science Council of Japan (in FY2014). In FY2016, several departments at KU developed a prototype system for research data preservation using open source web frameworks with preference to agility of deployment rather than robustness. The prototype system also worked as the proof of concept for a full-service research data preservation system, which is due to be deployed by KU's central IT department in FY2017 for university-wide use.