scholarly journals Extension of research data repository system to support direct compute access to biomedical datasets: enhancing Dataverse to support large datasets

2016 ◽  
Vol 1387 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bill McKinney ◽  
Peter A. Meyer ◽  
Mercè Crosas ◽  
Piotr Sliz
Keyword(s):  
Large Datasets ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Data Repository

scholarly journals The on-premise data sharing infrastructure e!DAL: Foster FAIR data for faster data acquisition

GigaScience ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Arend ◽  
Patrick König ◽  
Astrid Junker ◽  
Uwe Scholz ◽  
Matthias Lange
Keyword(s):  
Data Management ◽  
Data Storage ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Data Repository ◽  
Plant Genomics ◽  
Quality Of Data

Abstract Background The FAIR data principle as a commitment to support long-term research data management is widely accepted in the scientific community. Although the ELIXIR Core Data Resources and other established infrastructures provide comprehensive and long-term stable services and platforms for FAIR data management, a large quantity of research data is still hidden or at risk of getting lost. Currently, high-throughput plant genomics and phenomics technologies are producing research data in abundance, the storage of which is not covered by established core databases. This concerns the data volume, e.g., time series of images or high-resolution hyper-spectral data; the quality of data formatting and annotation, e.g., with regard to structure and annotation specifications of core databases; uncovered data domains; or organizational constraints prohibiting primary data storage outside institional boundaries. Results To share these potentially dark data in a FAIR way and master these challenges the ELIXIR Germany/de.NBI service Plant Genomic and Phenomics Research Data Repository (PGP) implements a “bring the infrastructure to the data” approach, which allows research data to be kept in place and wrapped in a FAIR-aware software infrastructure. This article presents new features of the e!DAL infrastructure software and the PGP repository as a best practice on how to easily set up FAIR-compliant and intuitive research data services. Furthermore, the integration of the ELIXIR Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure (AAI) and data discovery services are introduced as means to lower technical barriers and to increase the visibility of research data. Conclusion The e!DAL software matured to a powerful and FAIR-compliant infrastructure, while keeping the focus on flexible setup and integration into existing infrastructures and into the daily research process.

scholarly journals GAMS – An infrastructure for the long-term preservation and publication of research data from the Humanities

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 207-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Hubert Stigler ◽  
Elisabeth Steiner
Keyword(s):  
System Architecture ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Data Repository ◽  
Data Repositories ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Preservation Policy ◽  
Long Term Preservation ◽  
Data Centres

Research data repositories and data centres are becoming more and more important as infrastructures in academic research. The article introduces the Humanities’ research data repository GAMS, starting with the system architecture to preservation policy and content policy. Challenges of data centres and repositories and the general and domain-specific approaches and solutions are outlined. Special emphasis lies on the sustainability and long-term perspective of such infrastructures, not only on the technical but above all on the organisational and financial level.

scholarly journals Connecting Data Publication to the Research Workflow: A Preliminary Analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sünje Dallmeier-Tiessen ◽  
Varsha Khodiyar ◽  
Fiona Murphy ◽  
Amy Nurnberger ◽  
Lisa Raymond ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Working Group ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Data Publishing ◽  
Data Repository ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Data Repositories ◽  
Data Publication ◽  
Loosely Coupled ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Data Documentation

The data curation community has long encouraged researchers to document collected research data during active stages of the research workflow, to provide robust metadata earlier, and support research data publication and preservation. Data documentation with robust metadata is one of a number of steps in effective data publication. Data publication is the process of making digital research objects ‘FAIR’, i.e. findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable; attributes increasingly expected by research communities, funders and society. Research data publishing workflows are the means to that end. Currently, however, much published research data remains inconsistently and inadequately documented by researchers. Documentation of data closer in time to data collection would help mitigate the high cost that repositories associate with the ingest process. More effective data publication and sharing should in principle result from early interactions between researchers and their selected data repository. This paper describes a short study undertaken by members of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) and World Data System (WDS) working group on Publishing Data Workflows. We present a collection of recent examples of data publication workflows that connect data repositories and publishing platforms with research activity ‘upstream’ of the ingest process. We re-articulate previous recommendations of the working group, to account for the varied upstream service components and platforms that support the flow of contextual and provenance information downstream. These workflows should be open and loosely coupled to support interoperability, including with preservation and publication environments. Our recommendations aim to stimulate further work on researchers’ views of data publishing and the extent to which available services and infrastructure facilitate the publication of FAIR data. We also aim to stimulate further dialogue about, and definition of, the roles and responsibilities of research data services and platform providers for the ‘FAIRness’ of research data publication workflows themselves.

scholarly journals Processes and Procedures for Data Publication: A Case Study in the Geosciences

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 193-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Callaghan ◽  
Fiona Murphy ◽  
Jonathan Tedds ◽  
Rob Allan ◽  
John Kunze ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Earth Sciences ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Data Repository ◽  
Data Publication ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Policies And Procedures ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Work Done

The Peer REview for Publication and Accreditation of Research Data in the Earth sciences (PREPARDE) project is a JISC and NERC funded project which aims to investigate the policies and procedures required for the formal publication of research data, ranging from ingestion into a data repository, through to formal publication in a data journal. It also addresses key issues arising in the data publication paradigm, including, but not limited to, issues related to how one peer reviews a dataset, what criteria are needed for a repository to be considered objectively trustworthy, and how datasets and journal publications can be effectively cross-linked for the benefit of the wider research community. PREPARDE brings together a wide range of experts in the research, academic publishing and data management fields both within the Earth Sciences and in the broader life sciences with the aim of producing general guidelines applicable to a wide range of scientific disciplines and data publication types. This paper provides details of the work done in the first half of the project; the project itself will be completed in June 2013.

A study of Open Access research data repositories developed by BRICS countries

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Safat Mushtaq Misgar ◽  
Ajra Bhat ◽  
Zahid Ashraf Wani
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Data Repository ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Data Repositories ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Subject Coverage

Purpose In the present era, research data is a concern for researchers, as they are trying to find new ways to communicate their research findings and conclusions to other researchers in order to increase visibility and credibility. BRICS nations are fast emerging economies and contribute significantly in research output. This study makes an effort to analyze and explore the role of BRICS nations towards open access research data repository registered with Registry of Research Data Repositories. Design/methodology/approach The data were gathered from re3data repository, and the search was limited to BRICS nations. The data were further analyzed and tabulated as per set parameters, namely, country-wise distribution, types of contents, subject coverage and language diversity. Findings The findings depict that in terms of strength, India has the highest number of data repositories, thereby achieved the first rank among BRICS nations, and South Africa has the least number of data repositories, whereas in terms of content type and subject coverage, India again is leading among BRICS nations. The English language is used by repositories as the main language of the interface. Practical implications The study helps to understand the development of research data repositories by BRICS nations. The study is further beneficial to researchers, as Registry of Research Data Repository provides a single platform to access repositories from various disciplines. Readily available data saves time, money and efforts of researchers and helps the researcher in completing their research activity in a very short span of time. Originality/value The paper has investigated open access data repositories of BRICS nation that has not been attempted earlier. This gives readers comprehensive overview of research data repositories developed in fast emerging economies of the global. The paper can be very helpful for information managers, OA promoters and education and research policy makers to devise plans and policy bearing in mind the evolving research channels in emerging economies.

scholarly journals Exploring Humanities Research Data in Figshare

2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (1A (113A)) ◽  
pp. 57-71
Author(s):  
Samia Takhtoukh
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Research Management ◽  
Data Repository ◽  
Final Conclusion ◽  
Data Warehouses ◽  
Multidisciplinary Data ◽  
Analyze Data

Purpose/Thesis: The purpose of this study is to explore the uptake and use of Figshare by humanities community and to know if opening of the research data is enough to make them visible and findable.Approach/Methods: The overall research design was to gather a sample of humanities artifacts found on Figshare through its API, and then to analyze such indicators as the number of articles by discipline, the evolution of contribution per year, and the number of views and downloads by affiliation to an institution.Results and conclusions: The humanities community engagement with Figshare varies depending on the discipline; in addition, even when research data is published, 50% is rarely viewed. This means that making research data open is not enough to make it visible and to ensure their reuse. The final conclusion is that articles affiliated to an institution have more chance to be visible than unaffiliated ones.Research limitations: The limit of our study is that it can only analyze data present in Figshare and not the data that is missing, so we cannot know the reasons for the small visibility of humanities research data; the study of other data warehouses is necessary to give more explanation, but the results con­form to the pattern visible in the data presented in several studies of research management practices.Originality/Value: The first study that explores the humanities contents the multidisciplinary data repository Figshare.

scholarly journals bwFDM Communities – a Research Data Management Initiative in the County of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karlheinz Pappenberger
Keyword(s):  
Data Management ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Data Repository ◽  
Full Time ◽  
It Service ◽  
Research Data Management ◽  
Concrete Action ◽  
The University

>> See video of presentation (33 min.)On 29th July 2014 the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, has launched an e-science initiative to build up a powerful, efficient and innovative information infrastructure for all universities, research institutions and universities of applied science of the county of southwest Germany. With the overall budget of 3.7 million euro action plans within the five areas licensing, digitalization, research data management, open access and virtual research environments shall be worked out within the next years.Within this framework an 18-month project has been launched at the beginning of 2014 to evaluate the needs of services and support libraries and IT service centres should offer for researchers in the area of research data management. In this “bwFDM communities” named project full time key accounters have been established at all 9 universities of the county (Freiburg, Heidelberg, Hohenheim, Karlsruhe, Konstanz, Mannheim, Stuttgart, Tuebingen and Ulm; among them national and international highly ranked universities). The task of the key accounters is to identity concrete needs and requirements of all research groups working with research data (in a broad sense including all areas of science, social science and humanities) at each of the nine universities as well as possible solutions by conducting semi-structured personal interviews and documenting them in the form of user stories. As a result issues of importance and requirements will be identified, categorized and finalized to recommendations for concrete action plans.The presentation will give an overview of the first results of the project, thereby also highlighting the roles libraries and IT service centres are expected to play from the researcher´s point of view. Furthermore the presentation will point out the response of the University of Konstanz Library to the rising awareness of the importance of research data within the University Executive, showing the special efforts the University of Konstanz Library undertakes to support researchers in their research data management so far and to build up more and more expertise in the area of research data management. One step had been the set-up of a disciplinary data repository in the field of ornithology (Movebank data repository).

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