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glen e. p. ropella-2

Does anyone have a recommendation for a free service that will accept
and store data files for as long as possible (ideally forever)?  I don't
want to have to submit a paper, as with arxiv.org.  I just want a place
to store data.

I did find this:   http://easy.dans.knaw.nl/dms  And they have a life
sciences section.  So, that's one possibility.  Are there others?

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Re: permanent free data archives

Tom Johnson
How large is the data set?  If <2 gigs (ZIPPED???), there are many sites with 2-5 gigs free.  That said, I would not count on any site being around forever or even 20 yrs. out.  And even if the site/servers are around, the challenge will be reading/restoring the data before it becomes Swiss cheese.

-Tom

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 1:08 PM, glen e. p. ropella <[hidden email]> wrote:

Does anyone have a recommendation for a free service that will accept
and store data files for as long as possible (ideally forever)?  I don't
want to have to submit a paper, as with arxiv.org.  I just want a place
to store data.

I did find this:   http://easy.dans.knaw.nl/dms  And they have a life
sciences section.  So, that's one possibility.  Are there others?

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Re: permanent free data archives

glen e. p. ropella-2
Tom Johnson wrote circa 10-06-23 12:22 PM:
> How large is the data set?

That's not clear.  There are some data sets I'd like to share that are
pretty small kB, mB.  But then there are some data sets up there in the
high gigaB range.

>  If <2 gigs (ZIPPED???), there are many sites
> with 2-5 gigs free.  That said, I would not count on any site being
> around forever or even 20 yrs. out.  And even if the site/servers are
> around, the challenge will be reading/restoring the data before it
> becomes Swiss cheese.

Yeah, I don't want to use anything that is likely to carry nefarious
material, if possible.  I'd like something professional, geared toward
scientific data, preferably moderated.  The normal option is just to put
it on one of your own websites and then be sure to maintain that
website/data until you're sure you no longer need it... then hopefully
someone like archive.org may keep a copy of it.

It just seems to me like this would be something the national institutes
or labs would already provide.

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Re: permanent free data archives

Tyler White
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If you send the files out into space as light, they will last forever, as far as we know.

Tyler

On Jun 23, 2010, at 1:08 PM, glen e. p. ropella wrote:

>
> Does anyone have a recommendation for a free service that will accept
> and store data files for as long as possible (ideally forever)?  I don't
> want to have to submit a paper, as with arxiv.org.  I just want a place
> to store data.
>
> I did find this:   http://easy.dans.knaw.nl/dms  And they have a life
> sciences section.  So, that's one possibility.  Are there others?
>
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> glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://agent-based-modeling.com
>
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glen e. p. ropella-2
Tyler White wrote circa 10-06-23 01:10 PM:
> If you send the files out into space as light, they will last forever, as far as we know.

Heh, well, what I'm actually looking for is self-perpetuating low-error
rate data replication, not storage.  Sorry for mis-speaking. ;-)
Storing it in light wouldn't work because the first dark object that
reads it will destroy it for the rest of us.

It seems like torrent style storage would be the best solution.

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