> In addition to sites such as those listed, Universities often provide institution-level data hosting.
(For those that haven't spotted it, these are permitted under 'Generalist repositories')
> An advantage is that there are local people who can help the researchers with the process, e.g. in setting up useful metadata and so forth.
I helped set up such a service nearly 10 years ago, and still help run it. There undoubtedly are advantages to depositing with us for the reasons you mention, plus we permit far larger publications than most services (our largest are around 1TB).
However we are a large, general university, and so have to deal with deposits ranging from theology related images to CT scans of fossils specimens to synthetic chemistry data. And all points in between.
Being general limits our capacity for detailed help concerning metadata and format standards for researchers since we just don't have enough data librarians with these specialisms. So my advice is to use a community established repository where available (UK Data Archive is a good example).
You are right about people just dumping data. Since 2015 (iirc) researchers have been expected by funders and publishers to plan their data storage and make it available ultimately. That doesn't necessarily lead to quality publications, though our reviewers try their best.
To paraphrase a researcher "I intend to give this process the minimum required". (This is not a typical response, happily)
(For those that haven't spotted it, these are permitted under 'Generalist repositories')
> An advantage is that there are local people who can help the researchers with the process, e.g. in setting up useful metadata and so forth.
I helped set up such a service nearly 10 years ago, and still help run it. There undoubtedly are advantages to depositing with us for the reasons you mention, plus we permit far larger publications than most services (our largest are around 1TB).
However we are a large, general university, and so have to deal with deposits ranging from theology related images to CT scans of fossils specimens to synthetic chemistry data. And all points in between.
Being general limits our capacity for detailed help concerning metadata and format standards for researchers since we just don't have enough data librarians with these specialisms. So my advice is to use a community established repository where available (UK Data Archive is a good example).
You are right about people just dumping data. Since 2015 (iirc) researchers have been expected by funders and publishers to plan their data storage and make it available ultimately. That doesn't necessarily lead to quality publications, though our reviewers try their best.
To paraphrase a researcher "I intend to give this process the minimum required". (This is not a typical response, happily)