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As a sustainability measure aimed at ensuring your data are available in the long term, all iUTAH datasets are being moved to a larger system called HydroShare for data publication. HydroShare is a new system developed by USU researchers, along with other partners. It includes the functionality of the current iUTAH Data Repository with some additional benefits:

·       it supports formal publication of research products, including issuing citable digital object identifiers (DOIs)

·       it supports collaborative groups with both public and private sharing of resources

·       it supports sharing both data and models

Although there is some work involved in transitioning to HydroShare, the iUTAH Cyberinfrastructure Team is doing as much of this work as possible to ensure that any effort required of collaborators is minimal. 

If you have submitted datasets to the iUTAH Data Repository: The iUTAH Cyberinfrastructure Team is handling the transfer of your datasets from the iUTAH Repository to the HydroShare system. In the next few weeks, we will contact you about your datasets. You can create a HydroShare account, and we will transfer ownership of the datasets to you. You can then edit and curate your datasets if needed (especially for those datasets that are currently private) and formally publish them. We will maintain pointers from the iUTAH Repository to HydroShare to redirect any potential users who have the old links.

If you have not yet submitted datasets to the iUTAH Data Repository: You can submit your datasets directly to HydroShare. We are preparing some instructions and a tutorial video for this process. You are welcome to submit datasets without that guidance or wait until the instructions are more complete. 

Jeff Horsburgh, Amber Jones, and the iUTAH Cyberinfrastructure Team appreciate the work that many of you have done to add your datasets to the iUTAH Data Repository, and welcome you to contact them directly with questions about the transition.