Data Management and Publishing

Sharing Your Data

You can share your data easily by emailing it to requestors, or posting it to a website, Google, Amazon or Microsoft. However, this method of sharing makes it difficult for people to find your data. Depositing your data in an archive will facilitate its discovery and preservation.

Publish Your Data in a Repository

Any Discipline | Science and Engineering | Social Sciences

Note: Not all of the repositories listed can ensure long-term preservation of your data; contact each one for more details. This list contains suggestions and is not necessarily complete. For a more complete list of data repositories, see the Purdue University Distributed Data Curation Center's page on Other Data Repositories.

Data Created at MIT (Any Discipline)

DSpace - The repository created to capture, distribute, and preserve digital products of MIT faculty and researchers. Authors can archive their digital works in a variety of formats, including datasets. For more information on how to deposit data into DSpace, contact the DSpace Product Manager.

Harvard-MIT Data Center (HMDC) - MIT faculty can create personalized data collections. Faculty-produced data can be distributed to users in various formats and subsets, and also can be explored using online data analysis.

Science and Engineering

• Astronomy
  SIMBAD

• Atmospheric Science
  National Center for Atmospheric Research - Scientific datasets of historical value are curated and catalogued at the Mass Storage System

• Biology
  Protein Data Bank - An Information portal to biological macromolecular structures
  
  UniProt - Submit a new protein sequence to UniProtKB using SPIN, a web-based tool for submitting directly sequenced protein sequences to the Universal Protein Resource (for new nucleotide submissions, use EMBL's WEBIN instead).

• Chemistry
  PubChem - provides information on the biological activities of small molecules. It includes substance information, compound structures, and bioactivity data in three primary databases, PCSubstance, PCCompound, and PCBioAssay, respectively.

• Computer Science
  Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) - provides tools and analyses promoting the engineering and maintenance of a robust, scalable global Internet infrastructure.

• Earth Science
  GEON - Portal for sharing, publishing, and integrating data.

• Oceanography
  National Oceanographic Data Center - NODC is an organization made up of the Oceanographic Data Center, National Coastal Data Development Center, World Data Center for Oceanography, and the NOAA Central Library, integrated to provide access to the world's most comprehensive sources of marine environmental data and information.
  
  
• Snow and Ice
  National Snow and Ice Data Center - NSIDC archives cryospheric data. NSIDC acknowledges all data providers in documentation, metadata (Directory Interchange Format (DIF)), and references, and is also willing to hold or restrict data distribution until providers publish.
  
  
• Space Science
  National Space Science Data Center - NSSDC accepts data from: active archives in the space sciences funded through the Science Missions Directorate, missions in that same directorate, and individual scientists (mission or instrument principal investigators).

Social Sciences

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) - The world's largest archive of digital social science data. ICPSR staff can guide you in preparing your data for archiving and distribution. See their Guide to Social Science Data Preparation and Archiving and their page on Depositing Data.

• Harvard-MIT Data Center (HMDC) - MIT faculty can create personalized data collections. Faculty-produced data can be distributed to users in various formats and subsets, and also can be explored using online data analysis.

This page was last updated on Thursday, 16-Jul-2009 08:02:27 EDT