Data storage is the archiving of data within a computing environment. Most funding agencies require that data be properly stored both during and after the research project and available for viewing and reuse. The resources below outline best practices for long-term data storage:
- Organization: Community Owned Digital Preservation Tool Registry (COPTR)
Link: http://coptr.digipres.org/Main_Page
Contains: A finding and evaluation guide to help researchers discover the tools they need to perform particular digital preservation tasks.
- Organization: DataONE Education Modules
Link: https://www.dataone.org/best-practices/storage
Contains: Lessons on deciding what data to preserve, identifying data with long-term value, and storing data with appropriate precision.
- Organization: PLoS Computational Biology
Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5072699/
Contains: An article by Hart et al. (2016) titled "Ten Simple Rules for Digital Data Storage".
- Organization: Registry of Research Data Repositories (re3data)
Link: https://www.re3data.org/
Contains: A toolkit of repositories and databases for open data, searchable by discipline.