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Am 20:59, schrieb Jrh: ... > So:- Universities are now establishing their own institutional > repositories, driven largely by Open Access demands of funders. For > these to host raw datasets that underpin publications is a reasonable > role in my view and indeed they already have this category in the > University of Manchester eScholar system, for example. I am set to > explore locally here whether they would accommodate all our Lab's raw > Xray images datasets per annum that underpin our published crystal > structures. > > It would be helpful if readers of this CCP4bb could kindly also > explore with their own universities if they have such an > institutional repository and if raw data sets could be accommodated. > Please do email me off list with this information if you prefer but > within the CCP4bb is also good. > Dear John, I'm pretty sure that there exists no consistent policy to provide an "institutional repository" for deposition of scientific data at German universities or Max-Planck institutes or Helmholtz institutions, at least I never heard of something like this. More specifically, our University of Konstanz certainly does not have the infrastructure to provide this. I don't think that Germany is the only country which is the exception to any rule of availability of "institutional repository" . Rather, I'm almost amazed that British and American institutions seem to support this. Thus I suggest to not focus exclusively on official institutional repositories, but to explore alternatives: distributed filestores like Google's BigTable, Bittorrent or others might be just as suitable - check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_data_store. I guess that any crystallographic lab could easily sacrifice/donate a TB of storage for the purposes of this project in 2011 (and maybe 2 TB in 2012, 3 in 2013, ...), but clearly the level of work to set this up should be kept as low as possible (a bittorrent daemon seems simple enough). Just my 2 cents, Kay