• Research Data Publishing is a cornerstone of Open Access

• Long-term storage
  • Data should not disappear
• Persistent identifiers
  • Possibility to refer to a dataset over long periods of time
  • e.g. DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers)
• Discoverability
  • Expose dataset metadata through search functionalities

• To be useful for others data should be
  • FAIR - Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable
  • for man and machine

Wilkinson, Mark et al. “The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship”. Scientific Data 3, Article number: 160018 (2016) http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.18

• Best way to make data findable and re-usable
• Domain-specific metadata standards

• Not always straight-forward for users

• Ecology data repositories?
  • Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB)?
  • LTER (Long Term Ecological Research) Data Portal?
  • other?

• Research data that doesn’t fit in structured data repositories
• Data publication – persistent identifiers
• Metadata submission – not tailored to specialist scientific domains
  • Affects discoverability
• Figshare - https://figshare.com/
• EUDAT - http://eudat.eu/
• Data Dryad - http://datadryad.org/
• Zenodo - http://www.zenodo.org/