3TU.Datacentrum

Data archiving and publishing: good practices

Annemiek van der Kuil, Research Data Officer 3TU.Datacentrum

Consider long term storage

3TU.Datacentrum 2

Sou

rce:

WU

R t

emp

late

dm

p

Ways to loose your data

• Bits get lost (file damage, deleted,

disappears, fire, bit rot)

• Context or documentation

gets lost

• Required hardware or software

becomes out of date,

inoperable or unavailable

Data Archive

Persistent

identifier

(DOI)

Sustainable formats

‘frozen’ data: published and open (max. 2 years embargo)

FINDABLE & CITABLE

READABLE & REUSABLE

SAFE & SECURE

VISIBLE & SHAREABLE

http://data.3tu.nl

Example: ‘the Dutch particle’

Sergey Frolow about 3TU.Datacentrum

Example: Cryo-TEM

Nico Sommerdijk about 3TU.Datacentrum

Example: IDRA collection

CONTEXT IS IMPORTANT

Tobias Otto about 3TU.Datacentrum

Enhanced publication

Bas Wols about 3TU.Datacentrum

DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers)

http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.4121/uuid:c1ac7344-1... http://data.3tu.nl/repository/uuid:c1ac7344-1...

Visibility

• Do It Yourself: ‘simple’ sets Standard (self)upload form for descriptive information, single file per object (can be a ‘zipped’ collection), single DOI, … E.g.: Zandvliet, H.J.W. et al. (2010): Diffusion driven concerted motion of surface atoms: Ge on Ge(001). MESA+ Institute For Nanotechnology, University of Twente doi:10.4121/uuid:3f71549c-6097-4bb8-bc00-6db77deb161d

• Do It Together: special collections Negotiate: deposit procedure, description (xml, picture, preview), data model (using rdf), level of DOI assignment, query online, … E.g.: Otto, T., Russchenberg, H.W.J. (2010): IDRA weather radar measurements - all data. TU Delft - Delft University of Technology doi:10.4121/uuid:5f3bcaa2-a456-4a66-a67b-1eec928cae6d

How to deposit your data

Data article

Data journals

www.nature.com/scientificdata/

What’s in it for you?

• Preserving data for you to access later - sharing with your future self

• Peer visibility and increased respect achieved through publications and citation

• Meet funding requirements.

Do you have data you want to archive and

publish?

More information and contact

Contact 3TU.Datacentrum at:

• T +31 (0)15 27 88 600

• E [email protected]

• W www.datacentrum.3tu.nl

• @3TUDatacentrum

Thank you

Annemiek van der Kuil ([email protected])