Mastodawn

Why publish your research data in a proper repository like Zenodo, not a on a fancy institutional website?

I was looking to access the UN Peace Missions Mandate dataset for some analysis. When I checked https://www.peacemissions.info it was gone. Timed out.

I have no idea if it's temporarily down or down forever or what has happened.

It's not accessible elsewhere as far as I can tell, so the analysis is not happening.

#Data #Zenodo #ReproducibleResearch

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Andreas K 2h ago

@seanfobbe
Slightly wrong conclusion.

Publish them in multiple channels.

Central repositories have their own failure modes.

Rotting away is way more realistic with some random website.

Central repositories OTOH are simple points of failure.

So yes it's a well guarded (ideally) basket but still look how many eggs there are in it.