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[disclaimer work for related company - Digital Science] It's really worth getting those things into a system that will give you a doi and participate in an arc
by IanCal 8y ago
[disclaimer work for related company - Digital Science]
It's really worth getting those things into a system that will give you a doi and participate in an archive so that content should never be lost. Figshare is one, zenodo another (I think but can't find on a phone that the data is archived).
A doi, if versioned, can ensure people see the actual version you used. It can be pointed somewhere else if the provider goes down, and should be archived to ensure its not lost.
URLs are just not stable over time.
- Fomite 8y agoI've been consistently unimpressed with the offerings in that space.
- IanCal 8y agoCurious what's missing, iirc you can set figshare to automatically pull from GitHub on a release. Seems pretty low requirements for free long term archiving and fitting into the common workflows with DOIs
- Fomite 8y agoI can't quite put my finger on why I don't care for figshare - it just never seems to quite grip.