[Rdap] IEEE Data Port

[Daureen Nesdill]

Organize an online webinar with a chance to ask questions.
They ae looking for feedback
Daureen

From: Rdap [mailto:rdap-bounces at asist.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Petters
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2017 1:11 PM
To: Research Data, Access and Preservation <rdap at asist.org>
Subject: [Rdap] IEEE Data Port


Hmm, makes me wonder if it's worth a concerted (short) effort to ask some pointed questions of the IEEE DataPort folks. There is a contact person given, a Melissa Handa....

-Jon



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Seems they are taking a lead from ICPSR where access is also by membership and it can cost to deposit data.



But only kind of. ICPSR puts massive amounts of work into the curation of the data they charge for. If you just want to upload some data yourself (as is the case for DataPort – data becomes available immediately after submission) you can do this for free (and have it freely accessible) through OpenICSPR or many other services like Zenodo, Harvard Dataverse, figshare. The only selling point appears to be the high size limit of 2TB and the name.



I agree with Megan that this is not good.



Sebastian


This is a problem:  “You must be an IEEE Dataport Subscriber to access these files.”
(source: https://ieee-dataport.org/documents/sar-ship-dataset-detection-discrimination-and-analysis)



More bad news imoho follows… (source: https://ieee-dataport.org/faq/how-do-i-become-ieee-dataport-beta-tester)

“All beta testers will receive a coupon code for FREE subscriber access to all IEEE DataPort Datasets (regular price: $40/month).

All beta testers will receive a coupon code for a FREE Open Access Dataset upload (regular price: $1,950/dataset).

All IEEE DataPort users may upload standard (non-Open Access) datasets for FREE.”



I’m sorry but I just see this as yet another was for them to up subscription charges to libraries and/or pass the buck to authors while getting priority access, if not ownership, of the data.

Not. Cool.


-Megan
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