The renewed publication is interesting for anyone who is looking for data repositories in a specific field or for a certain data type, such as images. For example, the publication mentions the DANS archive for the deposit of archaeological data, alongside repositories of European infrastructures such as CESSDA for the social sciences, or ELIXIR for the life sciences.
The ERC states that grant recipients should look at the sustainability of the repository, in addition to the FAIR aspects such as metadata standards and licences for reuse. According to the ERC: “It is important that the data are of sufficient technical and scientific quality and are sufficiently annotated and structured to be useful to the community.” Because this can be time-consuming, part of the grant may be earmarked for annotation, for instance.
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Read the full publication online. Want to know more about using and depositing data via DANS? Please contact our datamanagers.
