[GRASS-PSC] Preservation of Spearfish data set on Zenodo

[Vaclav Petras]

On Wed, 9 Aug 2023 at 09:02, Peter Löwe <peter.loewe at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi PSC,
>
> earlier this year it was agreed to deposit the Spearfish dataset on Zenodo.
>
> The original GRASS4-dataset finally just got its DOI:
>
> https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7930523
>
> The Spearfish datasets for GRASS5/6/7/8 will be added as versions with
> their own version DOI.
>
> Here's a question regarding possible redundancvies:
>
>
> For GRASS 5.x there are three distinct versions for the Spearfish
> dataset according to https://grass.osgeo.org/sampledata/
>
> spearfish_grass60data-0.1.tar.gz
> <https://grass.osgeo.org/sampledata/spearfish_grass60data-0.1.tar.gz>
> spearfish_grass60data-0.3.tar.gz
> <https://grass.osgeo.org/sampledata/spearfish_grass60data-0.1.tar.gz>
> spearfish_grass60data.tar.gz
> <https://grass.osgeo.org/sampledata/spearfish_grass60data-0.1.tar.gz>
>
> Both archives "0.1" and "0.3" have the same filesize, while "grass60data"
> is slightly smaller.
>
> Should all three versions be preserved and versioned by DOI ?
>

Seems like pre-releases, while now we do have DOIs for RCs, there is no
need in general to have DOI for a version meant for testing only. Back
then, the 0.1 and 0.3 might have been around for a long time (I don't
know), but from today's perspective, that's all forgotten. 6.0 is a long
time ago (no date on our Trac website [1] and a broken link).

[1] https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release
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