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 file types
- File types
- What is the plan for ensuring that the file type can be read in the future?
- Research restrictions
- Not allowed material
- Research topic requirement
- Like astronomy, biology, archeology and so on
- Open/closed access research
- Conditions that the files have to fulfill
- Data security
- How many copies of the data are present?
- How protected are the data?
- Location
- Place located
- Accept material from
- 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
- Data privacy
- Form restrictions (like corpus, survey etc)
- Policy/Law
- Metadata
Repository
- Zenodo
- B2SHARE
- B2SAFE
- Dryad
- Statens Arkiver
- Dansk Data Arkiver
- Statsbiblioteket
- KB
- data.deic.dk
Evaluation Grid
Repository Criteria | Zenodo | B2SHARE | B2SAFE | Dryad | Statens Arkiver | Dansk Data Arkiv | Statsbiblioteket | KB |
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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 file types | Every file format | Every file format | Every file format |
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Research restrictions | Only researchers are allowed | Only researchers are allowed | Only researchers are allowed |
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Research topic requirement | 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 | Everything There is though the file size limit requirement that may be a problem |
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Open/closed access | Both | Open | Open |
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Security | Virus check |
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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. | 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. | 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. |
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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 migrated | 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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Data privacy | Almost 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 data |
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Policy/law | Open for all researchers | Open for all European researchers | Open for all European researchers |
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Intellectual Property
Recommendation
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Selecting data for preservation
When it is time to preserve your data, you will need to carefully consider exactly which components of your research need to be preserved. Answering "yes" to any of the following questions with regard to a particular data file or set of data may indicate that those data should be preserved for the long-term.
- Do the data support published research?
- Are the data vulnerable?
- Are the data required for your research but from another source (i.e. not your original research data)?
- If so, is the future availability of those data from the original source uncertain?
- Do you wish, or are you required, to share your data?
- Are the data historically significant?
In addition, you should also consider whether you will need to preserve multiple versions of a file or whether the most recent version will be sufficient for preservation. It may also be important to consider whether the project is still in progress or whether it is complete. Long-term projects, such as those that involve sampling of a single site repeatedly over months or years, may require periodic preservation of data before the project is actually considered "finished."
Once you have decided what data you want to preserve, you may want to submit it to a domain-specific repository or to the Stanford Digital Repository -- or both!
We have compiled some general guidelines (pdf) for selecting research and other works for preservation in the SDR. This document also includes specific examples and guidelines for various disciplines. Please refer to this guidance as you are selecting data for preservation. Do not hesitate to contact us if you have questions