Alberto Pepe edited Rule 8. Use community data repositories.md  almost 11 years ago

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# Rule 8. Foster and usecommunity  data repositories. For example, if your Sometimes the hardest and most time-consuming step of sharing data and code is finding and deciding where to put them. Your  community uses of reference probably already has and adopts a  standard repositories (eg repository. If you don't know where to start looking, ask an information or data scientist working  in astronomy, dbSNP your field. For example, if you are a biologist, any scholar  in genomics), upload bioinformatics can advise you on the best repository to host  your datato those repositories,  and if not try to promote code. If your field has no domain-based repository, your institution might have  one. In this case, your librarian should be able to instruct you on how to host your data at your institution.  If neither  your community doesn’t nor your institution  have a standard repository dedicated repositories,  there are a variety of generic repositorysite for example  siteslike Dataverse, Figshare, and Dryad. A benefit to using a standard repository is that they provide a citation for your data and have guarantees about the longevity. We note that if  you have time it is good to describe your data with additional metadata can use  (see below). Appendix).  If you get more ambitious, publish everything as [interlinked URIs](http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html).     Rally your colleagues and establish best practices in your field. Make agreements how  about which standards and repositories are best used to deposit the data. Don’t make this an eternal discussion, get started and iterate based on your experiences. Engage your community by providing feedback on the quality of those data assets, praise those following the best practices, installing  and utilize these resources. The more the data created by your colleagues is accessible as an organized collection of some sort, the better your community’s research capacity. promoting a repository yourself?