Add raw data files to the Hub with GitHub LFS for canonical dataset
Hi @zlucia, I would actually suggest hosting the dataset as a huggingface.co-hosted dataset.

The only difference with a "canonical"/legacy dataset is that it's nested under an organization (here `stanford` or `stanfordnlp` for instance – completely up to you) but then you can upload your data using git-lfs (unlike "canonical" datasets where we don't host the data)

Let me know if this fits your use case!

cc'ing @osanseviero @lhoestq and rest of the team 🤗 Hi @zlucia,

As @julien-c pointed out, the way to store/host raw data files in our Hub is by using what we call "community" datasets:
- either at your personal namespace: `load_dataset("zlucia/casehold")`
- or at an organization namespace: for example, if you create the organization `reglab`, then `load_dataset("reglab/casehold")`

Please note that "canonical" datasets do not normally store/host their raw data at our Hub, but in a third-party server. For "canonical" datasets, we just host the "loading script", that is, a Python script that downloads the raw data from a third-party server, creates the HuggingFace dataset from it and caches it locally.

In order to create an organization namespace in our Hub, please follow this link: https://huggingface.co/organizations/new

There are already many organizations at our Hub (complete list here: https://huggingface.co/organizations), such as:
- Stanford CRFM: https://huggingface.co/stanford-crfm
- Stanford NLP: https://huggingface.co/stanfordnlp
- Stanford CS329S: Machine Learning Systems Design: https://huggingface.co/stanford-cs329s

Also note that you in your organization namespace:
- you can add any number of members
- you can store both raw datasets and models, and those can be immediately accessed using `datasets` and `transformers`

Once you have created an organization, these are the steps to upload/host a raw dataset: 
- The no-code procedure: https://huggingface.co/docs/datasets/upload_dataset.html
- Using the command line (terminal): https://huggingface.co/docs/datasets/share.html#add-a-community-dataset

Please, feel free to ping me if you have any further questions or need help.
 Ah I see, I think I was unclear whether there were benefits to uploading a canonical dataset vs. a community provided dataset. Thanks for clarifying. I'll see if we want to create an organization namespace and otherwise, will upload the dataset under my personal namespace.
I'm interested in sharing the CaseHOLD dataset (https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.08671) as a canonical dataset on the HuggingFace Hub and would like to add the raw data files to the Hub with GitHub LFS, since it seems like a more sustainable long term storage solution, compared to other storage solutions available to my team. From what I can tell, this option is not immediately supported if one follows the sharing steps detailed here: [https://huggingface.co/docs/datasets/share_dataset.html#sharing-a-canonical-dataset](https://huggingface.co/docs/datasets/share_dataset.html#sharing-a-canonical-dataset), since GitHub LFS is not supported for public forks. Is there a way to request this? Thanks!