+Data repositories such as [Dryad](https://datadryad.org) and [ICPSR](https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/pages/) are designed to permanently store the data that are used in research so it is available to future scholars. To use the data, it is important to have good _metadata_: metadata describe the data themselves, rather than why the study was conducted, hypotheses, results, or conclusions. Metadata include thorough description of the data file, the context in which the data were collected, the measurements that were made, the tools used to gather the data, and the quality of the data themselves.
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