B2SHARE – Storing and Sharing Research Data

Abstract

B2SHARE (b2share.eudat.eu), EUDAT’s (www.eudat.eu) data sharing service, is a user-friendly, reliable and trustworthy way for researchers and communities to store and share small-scale research data coming from diverse contexts. Through a simple web interface, B2SHARE offers a solution to a problem faced by many researchers: finding a simple, convenient and durable way of storing and sharing their data. It allows registered users to upload typical “long tail” data objects into the EUDAT store, enables them to share such objects and collections with other researchers, and use other EUDAT services to provide reliability and data retention. Research data uploaded in B2SHARE is assigned a permanent identifier (PID) meaning it is always traceable and citable. Furthermore, it is stored alongside queriable & findable metadata and automatically available via the B2FIND joint metadata catalogue and finally all research data in B2SHARE is managed and stored by a trusted and certified data centre.