Long-term archival

Long-term archival is important to make sure that you have ability to access your group’s own data in the long term. Aalto resources are not currently intended for long-term archival. There are other resources available for this, such as

• the EU-funded Zenodo for open published data (embargoed data and closed data is also somewhat supported).

• Finland’s IDA (for large data, closed or open). There are Aalto-specific instructions for IDA here.

• There is supposed to be an alternate Finnish digital preservation service coming in 2017, and it’s unclear what the intention of IDA is in light of that.