Where should you create a data package?

Data Package

Create your data package locally, wherever you store the data and non-data supporting files collected or produced by or for your study

• Do not move or replicate any files to accommodate the data packaging process
• Creating your "data package" amounts to creating and completing Standard data package metadata files for your study to add context and usability info about your existing data and non-data supporting files
• You will save these Standard data package metadata files in a single file folder/directory, and save this single file folder/directory as a sub-directory within your study file/folder directory

Shareable Data Package

• Creating your data package by creating and completing Standard data package metadata files for your study will allow creation of a "shareable" version of your data package that:
  • Includes only files that have been specified as shareable to a public repository, and
  • Is organized in a manner that facilitates submission to a public repository and human interpretability of the submitted file structure

This "shareable" version of your data package will also be created locally, and may subsequently be submitted to a public data repository by study staff.