Research data management
Research data management
Data repositories are digital archives collecting, preserving and making available research data and their metadata. Permalink is a comfortable means for linking and citing datasets.
Typology of repositories:
Institutional research data repositories – e.g. UT DataDOI, Edinburgh DataShare, Harvard Dataverse
National data repositories – e.g. UK Data Service, ANDS
Disciplinary research data repositories – e.g. DRYAD ,PANGAEA, BioSharing, TROLLing, DataONE
Multidisciplinary research data repositories – e.g. Figshare, ZENODO, Dryad
Project-specific research data repositories - e.g. Scientific Drilling Database
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Data repositories are enrolled in registers:
The quality badge Data Seal of Approval certifies the trustworthiness of a repository. The list of repositories that have up to now been approved is here.