Comment by jkh1

Can I put my 25 TB microscopy image data set on GitHub? Will they host it for free indefinitely? In the life sciences, there are dedicated public repositories (databases) where the data is hosted (free to the researcher), catalogued, standardized and curated to some extent. These repositories are searchable and often crossreference each other. So you can find a data set even if you didn't know about it before. Putting data all over the internet in dumps like Zenodo, Dryad and the like is just not very useful. Advertizing your work is probably good for your career but this is not what makes your data and work useful to others. It's how easy you make it for others to understand, access and combine your data with their own data. This means providing data and metadata using open community standards (there are already a bunch of these in life sciences even if there are gaps in coverage).