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Data repositories and UCLouvain Dataverse

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What is a Data Repository?

A data repository is a platform where you deposit your datasets in order to publish, share and/or preserve them.

Datasets are deposited in an open infrastructure where they are given a persistent identifier (e.g. a DOI) and are associated with metadata. This makes them easy for search engines to find. The data repository also makes it possible to add documentation to make the data intelligible or to specify the conditions of access and re-use (via a license).

In this way, the data repository helps to make the data "FAIR": findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable!

There are general data repositories (like Zenodo, for example), disciplinary repositories (specific to a research discipline) and institutional repositories. The UCLouvain Dataverse falls into the latter category!

Dataverse, the UCLouvain Data Repository

"Dataverse UCLouvain" is UCLouvain's data repository. Its aim is to provide the university's researchers with a service for preserving research data with a view to publishing and sharing it in an Open or FAIR-compliant way. Here are its main features:

What ?Dataverse is UCLouvain's data repository.
For whom ?UCLouvain researchers.
Why ?To preserve and share data in Open or FAIR mode.
Where ?The data are stored on a specific UCLouvain server and managed by UCLouvain.
How much does it cost?Each research entity that requests it has 1 Tb free of charge (> 1Tb, a financial contribution will be requested).
How long will it last?All data deposited are guaranteed to be preserved for 15 years (> 15 years, an extension may be financed by the entity that deposited the data).

In addition, the conditions of reuse of the data (licence) and access to it can be configured. Data deposited on Dataverse is automatically assigned a DOI to ensure that it is uniquely and permanently referenced. This makes it possible to cite your dataset and make it visible!

 

Illustration : adapted from Roche DG, Lanfear R, Binning SA, Haff TM, Schwanz LE, et al. (2014), To deposit or not to deposit, that is the question - journal.pbio.1001779.g001, CC BY 4.0