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Maybe in large US universities? I work in research in a public university in Canada. IT is basically tech support, fix-my-email. There's no chance they would s
by auxym 5y ago
Maybe in large US universities?
I work in research in a public university in Canada. IT is basically tech support, fix-my-email. There's no chance they would support hosting our data or any other sort of service.
The university expects that researchers self-fund their own stuff using grants. Need laptops for your grad students? Grant money. Need a server, bunch of disks and a sysadmin to care for it? Grant money. Which is only realistic if you're a huge lab with millions a year in grant money. And even then, what happens whn this grant runs out? Your new grant does not pay for hosting some 10 year old data, all money is earmarked for your new project (literally, it would be illegal to spend the money on another project). So the old hosting quietly goes away.
- physicsguy 5y agoCompute Canada are developing a federated system
- geenew 5y agoDalhousie used to have an Academic Computing Services department within IT, which was designed to provide computing expertise to researchers - development of software, hosting, and related services to support research projects. I was told it was fairly unique. It's been a while since I was there but AFAIK it was axed or at least cut back as being unnecessary.
- michaelhoffman 5y agoEvery university institution in Canada either has an institutional repository or access to adoptive repositories for those without. https://www.carl-abrc.ca/advancing-research/institutional-repositories/repos-in-canada/ https://www.carl-abrc.ca/advancing-research/institutional-re... https://www.carl-abrc.ca/advancing-research/institutional-repositories/adoptive-repositories/ https://www.carl-abrc.ca/advancing-research/institutional-re...
- auxym 5y agoI checked this out. Turns out I was aware of the one for my university, but they only host written documents. Mostly PhD theses, a few other bits and pieces. No code or huge datasets.
- michaelhoffman 5y agoZenodo is a great place for code and datasets. For every paper we put any associated code, and any data that doesn't have a place in a more specialized repository: https://zenodo.org/communities/hoffmanlab/ https://zenodo.org/communities/hoffmanlab/ GitHub even provides a guide to depositing a GitHub repo in Zenodo: https://guides.github.com/activities/citable-code/ https://guides.github.com/activities/citable-code/