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h1. Why do Data Management ?

h2. Disaster recovery

h3. Disk Drives Break

"DataCent collection of disk drive failure sounds":http://datacent.com/hard_drive_sounds.php

h3. Buildings burn down

"Southampton University Mountbatten Building Fire":http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Southampton%20University%20Mountbatten%20Building%20Fire

h3. Laptops Break / Get Broken

"Shot laptop":http://lilysussman.wordpress.com/tag/laptop-destroyed/

h2. Data Reuse

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

h1. Licensing

Creative Commons

h1. 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...