This document discusses re3data.org, a global registry of research data repositories. It was created to help researchers, funders, publishers, and institutions find appropriate repositories to store and share research data. The registry launched in 2012 and currently lists over 300 research data repositories from around the world. Each repository is described using a standardized metadata schema with 37 criteria covering aspects like access, file types, certification, and geographic coverage. The goal of the registry is to promote a culture of open data sharing and increased access to research findings. It aims to help address the challenges of the growing number and heterogeneity of research data repositories.

1. Data management and
governance -
the re3data.org experience
Frank Scholze | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
European Library Advisory Board | Munich 16.5.2013

2. Outline
• Background
• Research Data Repositories
• re3data.org

3. Background
• Research data are valuable and ubiquitous
• New technologies facilitate data-intensive science
• Broad discussion about the permanent access to research
data
• Increasing requirements from funders to make data openly
available
• Growing demand for trustable and sustainable research data
repositories
Trend: data journals

4. OSTP Directive
„digitally formatted
scientific data resulting
from unclassified
research supported
wholly or in part by
Federal funding should
be stored and publicly
accessible to search,
retrieve, and analyze.“
Office of Science and Technology Policy. (2013). Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research.
Retrieved from http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/ostp_public_access_memo_2013.pdf

5. The Royal Society
„ Where data justify it,
scientists should make
them available in an
appropriate data
repository.“
- Intelligent Openness
(accessible, assessable,
intelligible, useable)
The Royal Society. (2012). Science as an open enterprise. The Royal Society
Science Policy Centre report 02/12.
Retrieved from http://royalsociety.org/uploadedFiles/
Royal_Society_Content/policy/projects/sape/2012-06-20-SAOE.pdf.

6. Research Data Repositories
• EC: ICT infrastructures for e-science
„The landscape of data repositories
across Europe is fairly heterogeneous,
but there is a solid basis (…) to
overcome the fragmentation and enable
research communities to better manage,
use, share and preserve data.“
Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee
of the Regions. COM(2009) 108 final. Retrieved from http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2009:0108:FIN:EN:PDF

7. The Landscape of Research Data
Repositories
funders
researchers
journals
research data
repositories
universities and
research labs
Where can I store my data?
Investigators are expected
to share their data!
Underlying data
must be accessible!
Where can I find data?
Should we offer
repositories
for all disciplines?

8. Open Data LMU, http://data.ub.uni-muenchen.de
PURR, http://research.hub.purdue.edu
Institutional RDR

9. Disciplinary RDR
PANGAEA, http://www.pangaea.de
GEO, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/

10. Figshare, http://figshare.com
Multidisciplinary RDR

11. BDPP, http://www.digitalpantheon.ch
SDDB, http://www.scientificdrilling.org
Project Specific RDR

12. re3data.org: Objectives
• global registry of research data repositories
• better understanding of the concept of research data
repositories
• help researchers, funding bodies, publishers and scholarly
institutions to find research data repositories
• promote a culture of sharing, increased access and better
visibility of research data

13. re3data.org: Status quo
• First project phase (2012/13)
• The registry went live in autumn 2012
 web-based registry
 definition of selection criteria
 formulation of a metadata scheme (vocabulary)

14. re3data.org: Aspects
David Marques (2013)
http://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/ar
ticles/best-practices/2013-
02/research-data-driving-new-
services

15. re3data.org: Vocabulary
• Vierkant, P., Spier, S., Rücknagel,
J., Gundlach, J., Fichtmüller, D.,
Kindling, M., Pampel, H., et al.
(2012). Vocabulary for the
Registration and Description of
Research Data Repositories.
Version 2.0. doi:10.2312/re3.002

16. Vocabulary in practice
• Review
• 37 criteria
• 25 controlled vocabularies
• Icons as representation of
sets of criteria
• Value added service for
researchers and repository
managers

17. A closer look at access icons
Access
Icons
Access to
Repository
open
open or
restricted
closed
Access to
Data
open,
(restricted,
closed)
restricted,
(closed)
closed
Upload
open or
restricted
open or
restricted
-
Orange: values have to be available

18. Icons and numbers
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
Certification Open Access Persistent Id All Aspects
From a total of 340 RDR in re3data

19. Champions
• CLARIN-ERIC
• Archaeology Data Service
• EASY (DANS)
• IQSS Dataverse network
• CrystalEye (beta)
• Durham HepData Project
• figshare
• Global Change Master
Directory (NASA)
• NeuroMorpho
• Neuroscience Information
Framework
• ClinicalTrials.gov
• Ecological Archives (ESA)
• PANGAEA
• WDC for Remote Sensing of
the Atmosphere

20. RDR by Country
US
GER
UK
CAN
NED
JPN
FRAN
AUS
DEN

21. Trends and Challenges
• Long tail
• Institutional perspective
• Workflow and information
continuum
• Take intelligent openness seriously
(accessible, assessable, intelligible, useable)

22. Thank you
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