DataShare: An open source data curation platform for repositories

New mandates for data management and sharing are going into place every day. As researchers seek out places to share data, they often turn to commercially-owned solutions like figshare. DataShare is a data sharing solution that keeps scholarly outputs in the hands of academic institutions. Using DataShare researchers can: (1) Select data for curation through local file browse or drag-and-drop, (2) Describe data in terms of the DataCite metadata schema, (3) Share data by uploading to a public collection in the Merritt Data Repository, and (4) Discover and retrieve data through faceted search and browse.