Exercise 05: Data & materials sharing

Dates

Due: Thursday, April 13, 2023

Assignment

Choose a data or code repository from among the following:

• Dryad
• Databrary
• Penn State Data Commons
• Dataverse
• figshare
• GitHub
• GitLab
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
• NIMH Data Archive
• OpenNeuro
• Open Science Framework (OSF)
• Qualitatitive Data Repository (QDR)
• Penn State ScholarSphere
• Zenodo

Provide some basic summary information about the repository:

• Who sponsors the data or code repository?
• What sort of data or code are stored and shared there?
• Who is the target audience for the repository?

Find a dataset or code base within the repository and report on the following:

• What kind of data or code are stored and shared?
• How hard or easy would it be for you to use the data or code yourself?

Submit

A 2-3 pp double-spaced report on your findings. Make sure to include your name and a title for your report in the header of your document.