A Comparative Study of Platforms for Research Data Management: Interoperability, Metadata Capabilities and Integration Potential

Abstract

Abstract. Research data management is acknowledged as an important concern for institutions and several platforms to support data deposits have emerged. In this paper we start by overviewing the current practices in the data management workflow and identifying the stakeholders in this process. We then compare four recently proposed data repository platforms-DSpace, CKAN, Zenodo and Figshare-considering their architecture, support for metadata, API completeness, as well as their search mechanisms and community acceptance. To evaluate these features, we take into consideration the identified stakeholders' requirements. In the end, we argue that, depending on local requirements, different data repositories can meet some of the stakeholders requirements. Nevertheless, there is still room for improvements, mainly regarding the compatibility with the description of data from different research domains, to further improve data reuse.

Regional Medical Platform Based on Middleware

“…Three is the sharing of basic level and community medical information [9,[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]. According to the current situation of information construction in primary and community medical units, the extension interface of middleware is established, and the conversion method of sharing the information of different demand is realized.…”

“…At present, many countries and cities have started and developed different implementation strategies [11,[15][16][17][18][19][20][21], through the card, unified hospital bar code and other ways to establish a regional medical public service platform. Medical region through the platform integration can be achieved within a certain region of the medical information sharing and access, at the same time, through the reserved interface and around them have the ability of unit of basic level medical treatment through different ways to access the remote or small medical units will be medical information into the platform and Realization of medical information integration strategy, thus promoting the development of universal electronic health systems and health care system.…”

“…In order to achieve the requirements, we start from the establishment of regional medical information integration platform, according to the existing medical units within and across a hospital data processing demand analysis [10][11][12][13], in view of the problems in the existing medical management information system data can't be shared between the proposed solution, and carried on the theoretical analysis and experimental verification, realizes the standardization of data transmission through the establishment of a middleware platform [1,2], final settlement of regional medical information exchange and sharing can provide comprehensive medical services for patients, reduce medical costs, to achieve information sharing for the medical industry, save costs, while the establishment of a more advanced medical applications, improve the level of public health [14][15][16][17].…”

Atributos de calidad web para repositorios de datos de investigación en universidades

“…Al comparar repositorios de publicaciones y de conjuntos de datos, es posible constatar que en estos últimos cada dominio de investigación tiene diferentes necesidades, debido principalmente a la diversidad estructural de sus datasets. Los requisitos de metadatos también pueden variar mucho de una disciplina a otra, lo que precisa de modelos suficientemente flexibles (Amorim, Castro, da Silva y Ribeiro, 2015).…”

Perspectives from a water research institute on knowledge management for sustainable water management

“…The open-source software CKAN (http://ckan.org/) was chosen largely because it is sufficiently modifiable to meet the broad spectrum of user requirements [Amorim et al, 2015]. Additionally, different groups require different ancillary tools to support the submission of data sets.…”