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What is wrong with an institutional account ? We used university FTP servers for many years to host software created by research projects at that institution.

by rjsw 8y ago

What is wrong with an institutional account ? We used university FTP servers for many years to host software created by research projects at that institution. I work on an international standard, we are moving our repository in a couple of stages from being hosted at Sourceforge to being hosted directly at iso.org. Reference data in this standard will also be Maybe the research funding agencies should start providing their own hosting with the base URI derived from the project name.

Fomite 8y ago
Because in the past four years I've been at three different institutions, and those accounts go away when I leave.
- rjsw 8y ago
  I presume that the departments or project groups you worked in are still there.
  - IanCal 8y ago
    These very regularly change.
  - Fomite 8y ago
    Some of the labs are - some of them have changed their names, or the PIs have moved on. But two of those papers were with my group, which has moved.