Understanding Research Data Repositories as Infrastructures

Boyd, Ceilyn

doi:10.1002/pra2.433

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“…Studies reusing re3data metadata include analyses of the overall RDR landscape, the landscape of RDRs in a specific domain, or the RDR landscape of a region or country. Some examples of studies reusing re3data metadata for research are: Overall studies: Boyd 83 examined the extent to which RDR exhibit properties of infrastructures. Khan & Ahangar 84 and Hansson & Dahlgren 85 focused on the openness of RDRs from a global perspective.…”

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re3data – Indexing the Global Research Data Repository Landscape Since 2012

Pampel,

Weisweiler,

Strecker

et al. 2023

Sci Data

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For more than ten years, re3data, a global registry of research data repositories (RDRs), has been helping scientists, funding agencies, libraries, and data centers with finding, identifying, and referencing RDRs. As the world’s largest directory of RDRs, re3data currently describes over 3,000 RDRs on the basis of a comprehensive metadata schema. The service allows searching for RDRs of any type and from all disciplines, and users can filter results based on a wide range of characteristics. The re3data RDR descriptions are available as Open Data accessible through an API and are utilized by numerous Open Science services. re3data is engaged in various initiatives and projects concerning data management and is mentioned in the policies of many scientific institutions, funding organizations, and publishers. This article reflects on the ten-year experience of running re3data and discusses ten key issues related to the management of an Open Science service that caters to RDRs worldwide.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Overall studies: Boyd 83 examined the extent to which RDR exhibit properties of infrastructures. Khan & Ahangar 84 and Hansson & Dahlgren 85 focused on the openness of RDRs from a global perspective.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

re3data – Indexing the Global Research Data Repository Landscape Since 2012

Pampel,

Weisweiler,

Strecker

et al. 2023

Sci Data

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“…Kim (2018) carried out a study using the re3data registry as a data source and analyzed data profiles for three leading Asian economies: Korea, China and Japan, and examined how individual countries contribute to the repository, organizational type, versioning and product quality management and subject tagging; and concluded that all three Asian countries still fall short in terms of involvement. Boyd (2021) analyzes the metadata for 2,646 entries in the re3data registry (re3data.org) and discusses the characteristics of RDR to determine the characteristics attributed to the infrastructures they exhibit. The findings demonstrate how RDR serve as the information infrastructure for the scientific community.…”

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Global overview of research data repositories: an analysis of re3data registry

Khan

Loan

Parray

et al. 2023

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Purpose Data sharing is increasingly being recognized as an essential component of scholarly research and publishing. Sharing data improves results and propels research and discovery forward. Given the importance of data sharing, the purpose of the study is to unveil the present scenario of research data repositories (RDR) and sheds light on strategies and tactics followed by different countries for efficient organization and optimal use of scientific literature. Design/methodology/approach The data for the study is collected from registry of RDR (re3data registry) (re3data.org), which covers RDR from different academic disciplines and provides filtration options “Search” and “Browse” to access the repositories. Using these filtration options, the researchers collected metadata of repositories i.e. country wise contribution, content-type data, repository language interface, software usage, metadata standards and data access type. Furthermore, the data was exported to Google Sheets for analysis and visualization. Findings The re3data registry holds a rich and diverse collection of data repositories from the majority of countries all over the world. It is revealed that English is the dominant language, and the most widely used software for the creation of data repositories are “DataVerse”, followed by “Dspace” and “MySQL”. The most frequently used metadata standards are “Dublin Core” and “Datacite metadata schema”. The majority of repositories are open, with more than half of the repositories being “disciplinary” in nature, and the most significant data sources include “scientific and statistical data” followed by “standard office documents”. Research limitations/implications The main limitation of the study is that the findings are based on the data collected through a single registry of repositories, and only a few characteristic features were investigated. Originality/value The study will benefit all countries with a small number of data repositories or no repositories at all, with tools and techniques used by the top repositories to ensure long-term storage and accessibility to research data. In addition to this, the study provides a global overview of RDR and its characteristic features.

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“…In fact, data mining mechanisms have evolved in order to adapt to the diversity of data types (Abaszade & Effati, 2019;Jaramillo, Garzás & Redchuk, 2021;Segura, Vidal-Castro, Menéndez-Domínguez, Campos & Prieto, 2011). A variety of tools have been created in accordance with diverse needs in terms of shared resources (Bashir, Gul, Bashir, Nisa & Ganaie, 2021;Boyd, 2021;Fan, Xia, Lo, Hassan & Li, 2021). Some of the tools used under the concept of free distribution software are DSpace, VuFind, Evergreen ILS, Fedora Commons, Invenio, Greenstone Digital Library, Ambra, E-Prints and RODA (Bankier & Gleason, 2014;Beazley, 2011;Pyrounakis, Nikolaidou & Hatzopoulos, 2014).…”

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Repository for academic documents, algorithms and data: A utility in an educational context

Jaramillo,

Brito,

Pachay

et al. 2023

J. Technol. Sci. Educ.

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Data repositories currently constitute essential programs within institutions. In fact, universities are the primary institutions that promote the creation, management and storage for the safekeeping of a variety of documents, data and/or projects. This work is carried out within the framework of institutional need and the application of knowledge by the students and professors in the software degree program at a university in Ecuador. This project centers on a web application that makes it possible to manage, upload and download resources. This initial version focuses on the resources related to academic projects, data sets and algorithms. The scalability characteristics have been carefully introduced to ensure a progressive evolution of other types of resources and functionalities, in accordance with educational needs. Several aspects of the web interfaces are based on the characteristics of other existing repositories, and a series of tests related to functionality have been conducted in order to move beyond the introductory stage of use, to begin with, by the university community. This project is carried out according to a conception based on contributions, in which the agents, in principle, are members of the institution. The intensive and collaborative use of this utility will contribute to the growth of a data culture within the institution. Furthermore, the collection and organization of data for the purposes of study and research by the different university degree programs makes it possible to analyze and contrast them from different perspectives.

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Understanding Research Data Repositories as Infrastructures

Cited by 7 publications

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re3data – Indexing the Global Research Data Repository Landscape Since 2012

re3data – Indexing the Global Research Data Repository Landscape Since 2012

Global overview of research data repositories: an analysis of re3data registry

Repository for academic documents, algorithms and data: A utility in an educational context

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