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S M Pujar
IGIDR, Mumbai
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From: Yaso Kunaratnam
Date: Tue, May 28, 2013 at 8:04 PM
Subject: [kbf] re3data.org - Registry of Research Data Repositories launched
To: Knowledge Brokers' Forum
*re3data.org - Registry of Research Data Repositories launched*
An increasing number of universities and research organisations are
starting to build research data repositories to allow permanent access in a
trustworthy environment to data sets resulting from research at their
institutions. Due to varying disciplinary requirements, the landscape of
research data repositories is very heterogeneous. This makes it difficult
for researchers, funding bodies, publishers, and scholarly institutions to
select an appropriate repository for storage of research data or to search
for data.
The goal of re3data.org is to create a global registry of research data
repositories. The registry covers research data repositories from all
academic disciplines. Information icons display the principal attributes of
a repository, allowing users to identify the functionalities and qualities
of a data repository. These attributes can be used for multi-faceted
searches, for instance to find a repository for geoscience data using a
Creative Commons licence.
By April 2013, 338 research data repositories were indexed in re3data.org.
171 of these are described by a comprehensive vocabulary, which was
developed by involving the data repository community (http://doi.org/kv3).
The re3data.org search at can be found at: *http://www.re3data.org*
The information icons are explained at: *http://www.re3data.org/faq*
Repository operators can suggest their infrastructures to be listed in
re3data.org via a simple application form: http://www.re3data.org/suggestThe
re3data.org team reviews and then lists the proposed repositories in the
registry. A repository is indexed when the minimum requirements are met,
i.e. mode of access to the data and repository, as well as the terms of use
must be clearly explained on the repository pages.
re3data.org is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Project
partners in re3data.org are the Library and Information Services (LIS) of
the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, the Berlin School of
Library and Information Science at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and
the KIT Library at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
re3data.orgcooperates with the German Initiative for Network
Information (DINI). The
three partners with their expertise in information infrastructures
guarantee the sustainability of the registry in the future.
Detailed information can be found in the following PeerJ preprint:
http://doi.org/mnn
Source: FAO
Yaso Kunaratnam
Network and Partnerships Convenor
IDS Knowledge Services
Institute of Development Studies, U.K
Skype: yaso.kunaratnam
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Dr Shamprasad M. Pujar
Deputy Librarian
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research
Gen Vaidya Marg, Goregaon (East)
MUMBAI-400 065, India
Phone: ++91-22-2841 6547
E-mail: pujar@igidr.ac.in
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