TY - JOUR UR - https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1448v2 DO - 10.7287/peerj.preprints.1448v2 TI - Ten simple rules for digital data storage AU - Hart,Edmund AU - Barmby,Pauline AU - LeBauer,David AU - Michonneau,François AU - Mount,Sarah AU - Mulrooney,Patrick AU - Poisot,Timothée AU - Woo,Kara H AU - Zimmerman,Naupaka AU - Hollister,Jeffrey W DA - 2016/04/26 PY - 2016 KW - Data KW - Informatics KW - Standards KW - Metadata KW - Storage AB - Data is the central currency of science, but the nature of scientific data has changed dramatically with the rapid pace of technology. This change has led to the development of a wide variety of data formats, dataset sizes, data complexity, data use cases, and data sharing practices. Improvements in high throughput DNA sequencing, sustained institutional support for large sensor networks, and sky surveys with large-format digital cameras have created massive quantities of data. At the same time, the combination of increasingly diverse research teams and data aggregation in portals (e.g. for biodiversity data, GBIF or iDigBio) necessitates increased coordination among data collectors and institutions. As a consequence, “data” can now mean anything from petabytes of information stored in professionally-maintained databases, through spreadsheets on a single computer, to hand-written tables in lab notebooks on shelves. All remain important, but data curation practices must continue to keep pace with the changes brought about by new forms and practices of data collection and storage. VL - 4 SP - e1448v2 T2 - PeerJ Preprints JO - PeerJ Preprints J2 - PeerJ Preprints SN - 2167-9843 ER -