[okfn-discuss] Hosting of open data for science

Wed Dec 12 15:23:56 UTC 2012

Any major problems with Amazon S3? Does it need app-space, or is it storing static files? It's pretty well-known, so shouldn't be too bad for transfer to new/different people, and there are a lot of libraries supporting building against it.  

S3 might be a good option, but the Data Hub would be awesome to make it more useable too.

Another thing is cost: S3 would be pretty good if you're looking to store big files which might not be accessed too often, but could be pricey if they're used extensively.

An interesting balancing act.

-Z  

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On Wednesday, 12 December 2012 at 14:45, Jenny Molloy wrote:

> Hi Gael
>  
> You could host on the Data Hub http://datahub.io/, which is a service run by the Open Knowledge Foundation (more info on CKAN and scientific data can be found in this blog post from Mark Wainwright http://blog.okfn.org/2012/06/19/ckan-science/)  
>  
> Alternatively, there is figshare http://figshare.com/
>  
> Both require no passwords to download (you may need to provide minimal registration information to upload) and will host files of that size.  
>  
> Jenny
>  
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Gael Varoquaux <gael.varoquaux at normalesup.org (mailto:gael.varoquaux at normalesup.org)> wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >  
> > I am trying to host a 160Mb dataset on a password-free site. It's a
> > scientific dataset (namely fMRI data from a classic experiment) that we
> > want to host to be able to give people open source software reproducing
> > the publication.
> >  
> > I am somewhat unsure what the best option is for this hosting. I am not
> > too excited at the idea of relying on my institution's servers, because I
> > find that it is hard to garantee the future of the data, as people
> > (including me) move on. Any suggestions?
> >  
> > Cheers,
> >  
> > Gaël
> >  
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