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Publishers, funding agencies, and libraries construct these lists of approved repositories to meet the needs of researchers, Many of these sites now link to centralized services, such as re3data.org. However, re3data.org does not capture all of the information needed to make a recommendation (e.g., technical restrictions).
Use cases
Q. Who is/ are the users? While the re3data and biosharing sites seem more targeted at experts, perhaps our service is targeted at the novice researcher?
For example:
- A researcher in the area of information retrieval has code and data to to deposit related to a recent publication. How do they determine where to publish the data?
- What does the publisher require? JASIST, TOIS/ACM
- What does the funding agency require? NSF
- What does the community generally do?
- Where have I or my collaborators previously published data?