Recommended repositories

The following repositories meet our peer-review requirements and are recommended for the archiving of JOAD datasets. Please contact us if you would like to use another repository or recommend that we add it to our list.

International repositories National repositories Institutional repositories
Archaeology Data Service
Figshare
Open Context
tDAR		 Arachne (Germany)
DANS (Netherlands)		 UCL Discovery

ads logo Location http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/
Focus and suitability Datasets concerning archaeology and the historic environment. Material is accepted from all over the world as long as it is in English (see scope of collections). The ADS provides specialised services for datasets requiring digitisation, conversion to other formats, or with customised display requirments.

The ADS is the mandated repository for research projects funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Natural Environment Research Council. It is also a member of the Digital Preservation Coalition and was awarded the Data Seal of Approval in 2011.
Cost
  • Free for doctoral students
  • Free for grey literature reports attached to a completed OASIS record
  • Other data: Ingest and dissemination costs are by negotiation (e.g. provision of an online queriable database or GIS interface), plus storage and refreshment costs (see charging policy)
Licenses CC-BY (must be requested)
Identifiers used DOI
Sustainability The Archaeology Data Service is funded by multiple higher education and government agencies including the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council and Natural Environment Research Council (see their funders page).
Deposit instructions Depositing data associated with a JOAD data paper in the ADS is currently done manually:

  1. Contact the ADS to arrange your deposit (see their How to Deposit instructions).
  2. Check that your deposit also conforms to the JOAD peer review requirements.
  3. When the data has been made public on the ADS site, it will be assigned a DOI. Please enter this in your JOAD data paper under Repository Location.
  4. Once your JOAD paper has passed peer review and been published, please ask for this to be added as a reference to the ADS pages for your data.

ads logo Location http://www.dans.knaw.nl/
Focus and suitability The DANS data archive collection contains datasets in the fields of humanities, archaeology, geospatial sciences and behavioural and social sciences. The archaeological collection comprises the e-Depot Nederlandse Archeologie, which accepts reports and datasets, either from Dutch archaeologists, or pertaining to Dutch archaeology.
Cost Free
Licenses No licence specified other than “open access”. For more details please see DANS Conditions of Use on the reuse of deposited data.
Identifiers used URN
Sustainability DANs is funded by the Dutch government, and operates under the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
Deposit instructions Depositing data associated with a JOAD data paper in the DANS data archive is currently done manually:

  1. Go to DANS and follow the instructions for depositing archaeological data.
  2. Check that your deposit also conforms to the JOAD peer review requirements.
  3. When the data has been made public on the DANS site, it will be assigned a URN identifier. Please enter this in your JOAD data paper under Repository Location.
  4. Once your JOAD paper has passed peer review and been published, please add this to the description field on the DANS Research Project screen.

figshare logo Location http://figshare.com
Focus and suitability Figshare takes data from all subject areas, and is suitable for small to medium sized archaeological datasets that do not require specialised curation. ‘”Figshare allows you to share all of your data, negative results and unpublished figures.”
Cost Free. “Figshare gives users unlimited public space and 1GB of private storage space for free.”
Licenses “All figures, media and multiple file uploads are published under a CC-BY license.

All datasets are published under CC0.”
Identifiers used DOI
Sustainability “Figshare is an independent body that receives support from Digital Science. ‘Digital Science’s relationship with figshare represents the first of its kind in the company’s history: a community- based, open science project that will retain its autonomy whilst receiving support from the division.’”
Deposit instructions Depositing data associated with a JOAD data paper in Figshare is currently done manually:

  1. Create an account with figshare.
  2. Upload your data as either a fileset (most appropriate if you have multiple files) or a dataset.
  3. Check that your deposit also conforms to the JOAD peer review requirements.
  4. When the data has been made public on the figshare site, it will be assigned a handle identifier. Please enter this in your JOAD data paper under Repository Location.
  5. Once your JOAD paper has passed peer review and been published, please add the reference to the description field in figshare, and add the JOAD DOI to the links also.

open context logo Location http://opencontext.org/
Focus and suitability Primary field research from archaeology and related disciplines. Most data is from US-based projects but the archive accepts submissions from any location.
Cost “Publication fees vary between $250 and $6000 depending on the complexity and size of the contributed database and related content.” See Data Publication Guidelines for Contributors for details.
Licenses CC-BY, CC0
Identifiers used ARK
Sustainability Open Context is run by the Alexandria Archive Institute, a California-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, and has been funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Deposit instructions Depositing data associated with a JOAD data paper in Open Context is currently done manually:

  1. Contact Open Context to arrange your deposit (see their guidelines).
  2. Check that your deposit also conforms to the JOAD peer review requirements.
  3. When the data has been made public on the Open Context site, you will be provided with a persistent weblink containing an ARK ID code. Please enter this in your JOAD data paper under Repository Location.
  4. Once your JOAD paper has passed peer review and been published, please add this as a reference in the Project/Collection Overview section in Open Context.

ads logo Location http://www.tdar.org/
Focus and suitability tDAR is an international digital archive and repository that houses data about archaeological investigations, research, resources, and scholarship.
Cost Digital Preservation fees start at $100 and are adjusted based on the number of files and total file size. Fees are charged when a resources is contributed to the repository.
Licenses Metadata is licensed under CC(by). Data contributed to tDAR are licensed in various ways related to their original creation.
Identifiers used DOI
Sustainability tDAR’s use, development, and maintenance are governed by Digital Antiquity, an organization dedicated to ensuring the long-term preservation of irreplaceable archaeological data and to broadening access to these data. Digital Antiquity’s key objectives include fostering the use of tDAR and ensuring its financial, technical, and professional sustainability. Digital Antiquity and tDAR are supported by the Andrew W. Mellon foundation, and an endowment built-in to contribution fees.
Deposit instructions Depositing data associated with a JOAD data paper in tDAR is currently done manually:

  1. Go to tDAR and follow the instructions for creating or editing a dataset.
  2. Check that your deposit also conforms to the JOAD peer review requirements.
  3. When the data has been made public on the tDAR site, it will be assigned a permanent identifier. Please enter this in your JOAD data paper under Repository Location.
  4. Once your JOAD paper has passed peer review and been published, please add this into the Resource Notes section in tDAR.

ads logo Location http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/
Focus and suitability UCL Discovery showcases UCL’s research outputs, giving access to journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings, digital web resources, theses, datasets and much more, from all UCL disciplines. The repository also enables UCL researchers to comply with research funder policies on open access.
Cost Free
Licenses All open licences permitted
Identifiers used DOI
Sustainability UCL Discovery is maintained bu UCL, a major international research institution ranked seventh in the world’s top ten universities by the QS World University Rankings (2011).
Deposit instructions Depositing data associated with a JOAD data paper in UCL Discovery is currently done manually:

  1. Log in to the UCL RPS system.
  2. Follow the general guide to depositing, with the following modifications:
  3. Expand the publications window so that it includes datasets, and click ‘Add new’.
  4. If your dataset consists of more than one file, please compress these into one zip file and upload this.
  5. Place your licence information in the Notes section. Example text: “This data is licensed under a CC-BY licence.”
  6. Check that your deposit conforms to the JOAD peer review requirements.
  7. When your dataset has been made public on the UCL discovery site, you will receive a DOI. Please enter this in the DOI field.
  8. Once your JOAD paper has passed peer review and been published, please enter the reference for it into the Notes section in UCL Discovery (e.g. ‘This data is described in the following data paper: …’).
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