Store and Share Research Data b2share.eudat.eu B2SHARE How to share and store research data using EUDAT’s B2SHARE This work is licensed under the Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 licence

b2share.eudat.eu B 2 SHARE is... … a user-friendly, reliable and trustworthy way for researchers, scientific communities and scientists to store and share small-scale research data from diverse contexts

b2share.eudat.eu B2SHARE is part of EUDAT... a pan-European initiative building a sustainable cross-disciplinary and cross-national data infrastructure providing a set of shared services for accessing and preserving research data supporting multiple research communities by working closely with them to deliver these technical services as part of the EUDAT Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI)

b2share.eudat.eu A truly pan-European Infrastructure EUDAT offers common data services, supporting multiple research communities as well as individuals, through a geographically distributed, resilient network of 35 European organisations Our vision is to enable European researchers and practitioners from any research discipline to preserve, find, access, and process data in a trusted environment, as part of a Collaborative Data Infrastructure

b2share.eudat.eu Community-Driven Solutions PHYSICAL SCIENCES & ENGINEERING SOCIAL SCIENCES & HUMANITIES MATERIALS & ANALYTICAL FACILITIES ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES MAPPER BIOMEDICAL & MEDICAL SCIENCES EUDAT services are designed, built and implemented based on user community requirements.

b2share.eudat.eu Where is B 2 SHARE in the B 2 Service suite? B2SHARE uses other EUDAT services such as B2SAFE and B2STAGE to provide reliability and data retention

b2share.eudat.eu store data safely at a trusted and certified data centre Register data to guarantee long-term persistence control access and share data with colleagues and the world A winning solution for researchers, scientists and communities to: Features: metadata management permanent PIDs Open Access support

b2share.eudat.eu What’s the B2SHARE added-value? Your data is... Hosted so there are no hardware or network worries on depositor side Assigned a permanent ID which means it is always retraceable to you Stored alongside queriable & findable metadata and automatically available via the B2FIND metadata catalogue Managed and stored by a trusted and certified data centre

b2share.eudat.eu What can users do? Users can … Search for data sets that are publicly accessible Deposit and share data (only registered users) Download data (only registered users) What happens to data once users have deposited it? EUDAT has no claim over the data deposited in B2SHARE and depositors remain entirely responsible for the data they deposit. EUDAT retains the right of archiving, i. e. creating replicas at trusted centers to take care of long-term persistence.

b2share.eudat.eu What data can users upload? Research data Primary data Processed data Data as basis for a publication Empirical data Theoretical data In virtually any kind of format.... Papers Spreadsheets Audio-visual media, Just a note... Make sure that you are allowed to upload your data and are compliant with all data protection laws regarding sensitive data and restrictions on where this data is stored. Unrelated personal data should not be stored on B2SHARE. Data source or purpose of the data is scientific Unlimited file uploads. 2GB per file (for larger files then contact EUDAT via request?Service=B2SHARE)

b2share.eudat.eu Search for data sets Click on “Search” at

12 Data Collections and PIDs

b2share.eudat.eu Register to deposit and share data Easy and quick registration at

b2share.eudat.eu How do I deposit data? (1/2) Click on “Deposit”

b2share.eudat.eu How do I deposit data? (2/2) 3 simple steps: 2. Select a domain or project specific metadata set to describe the resource(s) 1. Select and upload one or several data resources either by dragging and dropping from your file browser 3. Fill in the metadata form: the more information you add the easier your data will be to find for others Open Access: Select “ON” to make your data accessible to registered members only Select “OFF” and everyone can see your data

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