Once you have a complete data package, it is time to tell the world about it. Publicizing the existence of your data will ensure its use by the most people possible. If you already have a user community in mind for your data, publicizing it may be as simple as sending out a URL on a mailing list or to a specific research group. Sometimes, though, we create a dataset that we think might be interesting to a larger, more amorphous group.
There are many lists of data collections available on the Web, most of which are organized around some kind of theme. The publishers of these types of meta-collections (collections of collections) are usually more than happy to list new sources of data that fit into their niche. Meta-collection themes can include:
Datasets related to the same topic, for example, music data, biological data, or collections of articles on news stories
Datasets related to solving the same type of problem, for example, datasets that can be used...