Criteria
- Price
- Initial subscription price
- Free storage size limit
- Either total price or price per year
- Individuals
- Organizations (including publishers, scientific societies, libraries, funders, and others)
- Size limit
- Default uploaded file size
- Uploaded file size on request
- Number of files that can be stored
- Total allowed storage capacity
- Allowed data types
- Data types
- What is the plan for ensuring that the data type can be read in the future?
- Research restrictions
- Not allowed material
- Research phase
- Research topic requirement
- Like astronomy, biology, archeology and so on
- Access to data
- Conditions that the files have to fulfill
- Tracking users and statistics
- Restricted Access
- Data security
- How many copies of the data are present?
- How protected are the data?
- Location
- Place located
- Accept material from
- Ownership
- Versions
- Safety
- Sustainability
- What is the plan in case the service gets terminated?
- What funding is there?
- How much do the users of the service contribute with
- How high is the risk of the service getting terminated
- Withdrawal of data
- Revocation of DOIs
- Data privacy
- Virus check
- Encryption
- Form restrictions (like corpus, survey etc)
- Policy/Law
- Preservation of data
- Retention period
- Functional preservation
- File preservation
- Fixity and authenticity
- Metadata
- Access and reuse
- License
- Requirement/wishes (Ingest, Data Management, Preservation, Administration, Archival Storage and General)
- Submission Information Package (SIP)
- Record decision relating to SIP
- Identify data objects
- Validate files
- Automated extraction of metadata
- Record related physical material
- Select and configure automation
- Process large numbers of large files
- Persistent unique internal identifiers
- PDI associated with content information
- PREMIS metadata schema
- Describe data at different levels of granularity
- Maintain relationship between different file representations
- Store technical metadata extracted from files
- The digital archive will fulfill Dublin Core metadata
- The digital archive will guarantee long-term preservation and integrity of the data
- The digital archive will be certified to the Trusted Repositories Audit and Certification standard
- The digital archive will have access controls that can be used to restrict access to sensitive data if this is necessary
- Preservation plans for individual or groups of files
- Automatic checking performed post-migration
- Record actions, migrations and administrative processes
- Disposal of data where appropriate
- Record of what, when and why material got disposed
- Reporting capabilities so statistics can be collated
- Monitor the integrity using checksums
- Error report when data are lost or corrupted
- Compliant with OAIS
- Integrate with a range of repository or content management systems
- APIs for integrating with other systems
- Incorporate new digital preservation tools as they become available
- Extracting and exporting data and metadata
- Support and technical help is available
- Under active development
- Community of users exists
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In case the funder has demand a repository, here is a list of repositories, where the above mentioned points has been investigated.
Evaluation Grid
Repository Criteria | ZenodoB2SHARE | KB | B2SAFE(Dataverse) | Dryad | Dansk Data Arkiv | ||||
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Size limit | Uploaded file size:2GB Tested though with 10GB without problems and on request maybe more. Total storage size is free up to a limit of ? size | Uploaded file size:2GB Contact eudat-simplestore@postit.csc.fi if that file size is not enough Unlimited number of files Total storage size: ? | Uploaded file size:2GB Contact eudat-simplestore@postit.csc.fi if that file size is not enough Unlimited number of files Total storage size: ?
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Allowed data types | All formats are allowed - even preservation unfriendly. | Every data format | Every data format |
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Research restrictions | Anyone is allowed | Only researchers are allowed | Only researchers are allowed |
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| Research phase | Any status is accepted, from any phase of the research lifecycle.? |
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Allowed data types | All formats are allowed - even preservation unfriendly. |
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Research restrictions | Anyone is allowed |
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Research topic requirement | Everything There is, though, the file size limit requirement that may be a problem |
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Access to data | Both open, closed and embargoed data are allowed. Embargoed data are closed data till a user specified date. Files deposited under closed access are protected against unauthorized access at all levels Zenodo does not track, collect or retain personal information Users may deposit restricted files with the ability to share access with others if certain requirements are met. |
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Security | Research topic requirement | ||||||||
| Location | Everything There is, though, the file size limit requirement that may be a problem | Everything There is though the file size limit requirement that may be a problem | Europe International research | USA International research | Denmark Danish research | ||||
| Ownership | All uploaded content remains the property of the parties prior to submission | ||||||||
Access to data | Both open, closed and embargoed data are allowed. Embargoed data are closed data till a user specified date. Files deposited under closed access are protected against unauthorized access at all levels Zenodo does not track, collect or retain personal information Users may deposit restricted files with the ability to share access with others if certain requirements are met. | Open | Open |
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| Location | Europe International research | Europe European research | Europe European research | USA International research | Denmark Danish research | ||||
| Ownership | All uploaded content remains the property of the parties prior to submission | ||||||||
| Versions | Data files are versioned. Records are not versioned. Records can be retracted from public view; however, the data files and record are preserved. | ||||||||
Safety | Material that are not allowed are any kind of data which can be considered illegal in the real or digital world, this includes content of child sexual abuse and extreme violence and racist material. Illegal storage of copyrighted material will also not be allowed. Data files are kept in multiple replicas in a distributed file system, which is backed up to tape on a nightly basis. | Material that are not allowed are any kind of data which can be considered illegal in the real or digital world, this includes content of child sexual abuse and extreme violence and racist material. Illegal storage of copyrighted material will also not be allowed. | |||||||
| Versions | Data files are versioned. Records are not versioned. Records can be retracted from public view; however, the data files and record are preserved. | ||||||||
Safety | Material that are not allowed are any kind of data which can be considered illegal in the real or digital world, this includes content of child sexual abuse and extreme violence and racist material. Illegal storage of copyrighted material will also not be allowed. |
| Sustainability | Funded by EU. If terminated researchers are advised where they can store their research best | Funded by EU. If terminated researchers are advised where they can store their research best and there will be help to get data migratedData files are kept in multiple replicas in a distributed file system, which is backed up to tape on a nightly basis. |
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Sustainability | Funded by EU. If terminated researchers are advised where they can store their research best and there will be help to get data migrated |
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Withdrawal of data | If the uploaded research object must later be withdrawn, the reason for the withdrawal will be indicated on a tombstone page, which will henceforth be served in its place. Withdrawal is considered an exceptional action, which normally should be requested and fully justified by the original uploader. In any other circumstance reasonable attempts will be made to contact the original uploader to obtain consent. The DOI and the URL of the original object are retained. | ||||||||
Revocation of DOIs | Content not considered to fall under the scope of the repository will be removed and associated DOIs issued by Zenodo revoked. User access may be revoked on violation of Terms of Use. | ||||||||
Data privacy | Secure |
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Form restrictions | It has to investigated whether or not data is secure, so for instance social security numbers cannot be read by everyone | It is probably not possible to have secure data | It is probably not possible to have secure datanumbers cannot be read by everyone |
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Policy/law | Open for all | Open for all European researchers | Open for all European researchers
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| Preservation of data | Items will be retained for at least 20 years Zenodo makes no promises of usability and understandability of deposited objects over time. Data files and metadata are backed up nightly and replicated into multiple copies in the online system. All data files are stored along with a MD5 checksum of the file content. | ||||||||
Metadata | All metadata is exported via OAI-PMH and can be harvested. Users must specify a license for all publicly available files. Licenses for closed access files may be specified in the description field. | All metadata is exported via OAI-PMH and can be harvested | All metadata is exported via OAI-PMH and can be harvested |
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Digital preservation requirements for research data management
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