Archiving

The long-term preservation of research data, which can be distinct from public sharing (although many repositories support both preserving and sharing of data). When choosing a preservation solution consider:

• preservation period: Duration of retention.
• Data volume: Size of dataset.
• Responsibility: Data ownership during preservation.
• Metadata: Documentation for future usability.
• Deletion: Even if data cannot be preserved in the long-term, the metadata should be preserved permanently. 

Lib4RI recommendation: Use the institutional (see below) or field-specific archiving solution if possible. If these preservation solutions can't be used, we recommend Zenodo as a generalist solution.