This is about preprint servers. Cool. But for some reason I had inferred from the headline this was about sharing the actual data. As in the source datasets.

This is about preprint servers. Cool. But for some reason I had inferred from the headline this was about sharing the actual data. As in the source datasets. Ages ago, IIRC, Univ of WA had a project called something like ShareSQL. Made by astronomy or geology dept? Idea was to put your datasets online in read-only one-off databases. Sorry, I can't quickly refind this project. "ShareSQL" is too generic for searching. And probably not even the right name. Happily, hosting datasets online is getting a lot easier. IIRC, startup fly.io hit HN front page last week. They'll host your Postgres instance. (Like a blogger for databases. Ha. That's a pretty good tagline.) I'm sure there's dozens more startups. Any way. We're long overdue for sharing of data. I don't really follow this git ecosystem, but I've gleaned that hosting binary blobs is getting easier. And ever more accessible, like the hosting of SQLlite instances accessible via HTTP, also recently front paged here on HN.