Criteria

Price
Size limit
Research material accepted
Research restrictions
Research topic requirement
Open/closed access research
Security
Safety
Sustainability (for instance plans if the preservation is terminated)
Data privacy
Form restrictions
Politics/Law
Zenodo
B2SHARE
B2SAFE
Statens Arkiver
Dansk Data Arkiver
Statsbiblioteket
KB

Repository

Zenodo
B2SHARE
B2SAFE
Statens Arkiver
Dansk Data Arkiver
Statsbiblioteket
KB

Evaluation Grid

Repository Criteria	Zenodo	B2SHARE	B2SAFE	Statens Arkiver	Dansk Data Arkiv	Statsbiblioteket	KB
Prize	0	0	0			3000kr pr. TB pr. year
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
Research material	Every file format	Every file format	Every file format
Research restrictions	Only research	Only research	Only research
Research topic requirement
Open/closed access	Both	Open	Open
Security	Virus check
Safety
Sustainability	If terminated researchers are advised where they can store their research best
Data privacy	Almost secure
Form restrictions
Policy/law	Open for all researchers

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Repository

From the large repository list at re3data.org we have examined the following repositories

Global repositories
Danish repositories
- Databox (based on Dataverse)
- Dansk Data Arkiver
Local institutional repositories
- CKAN
- DSpace

Category

We have established the following criteria that we will use to evaluate each repository

Price
- Initial subscription price
- Free storage size limit
- Either total price or price per year
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
- Material not allowed
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
Accept material from
Ownership
Ability to have 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)
- Ingest
  - Submission Information Package (SIP)
  - Record decision relating to SIP
  - Identify data objects
  - Validate files
  - Automated extraction of metadata
  - Virus check files on ingest.
  - Record related physical material
  - Select and configure automation
  - Process large numbers of large files
- Data Management
  - 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
  - Fulfill Dublin Core metadata
  - Guarantee long-term preservation and integrity of the data
  - Certified to the Trusted Repositories Audit and Certification standard
  - Restrict access to sensitive data if this is necessary
- Preservation
  - Preservation plans for individual or groups of files
  - Automatic checking performed post-migration
  - Record actions, migrations and administrative processes
- Administration
  - Disposal of data where appropriate
  - Record of what, when and why material got disposed
  - Reporting capabilities so statistics can be collated
- Archival Storage
  - Monitor the integrity using checksums
  - Error report when data are lost or corrupted
  - Compliant with OAIS
- General
  - Integrate with a range of repository or content management systems
  - The digital archive will integrate with our archival 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

Links

The data archive in UK's FAQ, which asks and answers some interesting questions.

Similar question and recommendation: Where to archive and Choose Data Archive

A large register of different repository possibilities: Registry of Research Data Repositories

FigShare Presentation at DTU

As a part of the data management work of our AIS-BDM office at DTU, we are looking into different solutions for storage, sharing and archiving of research data.

One of them is FigShare, which is offered for researchers and also as an institutional solution for the data repository.

Here is the material presented on March 14th 2016 at DTU.

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