Choosing a Data Repository

• Does your publisher recommend a repository?
• Does your domain have an established repository?
• Other
• Certificates / ensure long term preservation
• Licenses / access rights management
• Provides DOIs / persistent identifiers
• Metadata standards
• Costs
• Criteria for selection of trustworthy repo’s

“Practical Guide to the International Alignment of Research Data Management” mentions the following selection criteria:

• Provision of Persistent and Unique Identifiers (PIDs)
  • Allow data discovery and identification
  • Enable searching, citing, and retrieval of data
  • Provide support for data versioning
• Metadata
  • Enable finding of data
  • Enable referencing to related relevant information, such as other data and publications
  • Provide information that is publicly available and maintained, even for non published, protected, retracted, or deleted data
  • Use metadata standards that are broadly accepted (by the scientific community)
  • Ensure that metadata are machine retrievable
• Data access and usage licences
  • Enable access to data under well specified conditions
  • Ensure data authenticity and integrity
  • Enable retrieval of data
  • Provide information about licensing and permissions (ideally in machine-readable form)
  • Ensure confidentiality and respect rights of data subjects and creators
• Preservation
  • Ensure persistence of metadata and data
  • Be transparent about mission, scope, preservation policies, and plans (including governance , financial sustainability, retention period, and continuity plan)