Why do Data Management ?¶

Disaster recovery¶

Disk Drives Break¶

DataCent collection of disk drive failure sounds

Buildings burn down¶

Southampton University Mountbatten Building Fire

Laptops Break¶

Shot laptop

Data Reuse¶

Do you reuse other people's data ? Can they reuse your's ?

Licensing¶

Creative Commons

Repositories¶

The appropriate repository will partly depend upon the data.

It could be... C4DM RDR, Dryad, Flick, Archiv.Org...

However, if you want data to be reused in a citable manner remember to package the license and the required citation with the data. It means that however the data reaches the final user the only excuse for not being able to cite the data is that someone has bothered to remove the info...