find a better home for the data

UCSBCarpentry / geospatialRUCSBAtlas

A repo to keep track of a set of examples for an R for GeoSpatial workshop. AKA the Ratlas. No rats involved.

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find a better home for the data #3

Open srerickson opened 2 years ago

srerickson commented 2 years ago

Google Drive isn't a great home for the source data (b/c depends on agreement with Google, no version control, no persistent identifiers, etc). It would be better to put this data in Zenodo. I'm happy to take a look at Zenodo packages for R.

jonjab commented 8 months ago

we have been re-writing everything to start with an internet download in data_prep.r. That will output to the source_data directory of files. Both are .gitignored so speed things up.

jonjab commented 2 weeks ago

I wonder, in the end, how many of the files will be on gDrive, and how many free-floating on the internet?

Certainly getting off of gDrive is a good goal. Making an uber-package of campus spatial data that's not generally available at a stable URL might be an even better goal. See the data dictionary for more on the data.