Dear all,

Many thanks for your feedback on the repository list (www.datacite.org/repolist). As mentioned by Sarah and Kevin, this is very much a work in progress and we strongly encourage input from the community. 

Following a suggestion from Sean Thomas (MIT) we have added columns to record both restrictions on deposit and restrictions on access. 

I agree Libbie that we should work towards providing information on the level of curation/preservation and we will explore this further. 

Thanks Matt for your suggestions - we will add the additional repositories to the list.

Best wishes,
Tom
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-----Original Message-----
From: Research Data Management discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kevin Ashley
Sent: 17 June 2011 20:04
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Subject: Re: A list of repositories for research data

Matt
       Those are very useful pointers, thanks. We are aware that
the list is far from complete - it is described as a work-in-progress.
I think all the partners felt that it was better to expose it now,
both to gather input from a wider range of sources and to make sure
people knew we were doing it. It's already brought a similar activity
in the USA to our attention - one that hasn't yet gone public.

We have intentions both to expand the range of information collected
about each repository and to make the data machine-actionable. The
latter could help us build a service to direct you to the most
appropriate repository for your data, based on things like your
discipline, funder, institution and data types.

It's clear that others have already collected more extensive data
in some areas. That's exactly what I hoped we would discover.
What I hope we can do is to make that data more easily available
and discoverable (just like the data in the repositories themselves.)

Kevin Ashley
DCC

On 17/06/2011 19:38, Matt Jones wrote:
> Hi Sarah --
>
> This looks like a great resource -- thanks.  It's always hard to be
> complete, but it seems there are a number of repositories missing,
> including:
>
> Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB): http://knb.ecoinformatics.org
> Oak Ridge National Laboratory DAAC:  http://daac.ornl.gov
> CIESIN: http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu/
>
> And also domain specific repositories such as:
> VegBank: http://vegbank.org
> TreeBase: http://treebase.org
> Paleobiology Database (PaleoDB): http://paleodb.org
>
> and many others.  There was a useful survey of scientific data repositories
> and their characteristics published last year by Marcial and Hemminger
> ("Scientific Data Repositories on the Web: An Initial Survey") -- it lists
> many repositories that are not in your list, and you might find it useful
> for the other repository metadata that they collected:
>    http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.21339/pdf
>
> Regards,
> Matt
>
> --
> Matthew Jones
> National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)
> University of California Santa Barbara
> http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 3:53 AM, Sarah Jones (HATII)<
> [log in to unmask]>  wrote:
>
>> *** Apologies for cross-posting ***
>>
>> DataCite, BioMed Central and the DCC are pleased to announce an
>> international list of repositories for research data:
>> http://datacite.org/repolist
>>
>> The list is a working document, so please get in touch to suggest changes
>> or additions.
>>
>> All best
>>
>> Sarah
>>
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>> Research Officer
>> Digital Curation Centre
>> HATII, University of Glasgow
>> www.dcc.ac.uk
>>
>> Tel: +44(0)141 330 3549
>> Skype: sarah.jones.ahds
>> Web: www.gla.ac.uk/departments/hatii/staff/sarahjones
>>
>>
>>
>

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