Making research data repositories visible: the re3data.org registry

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1 Library and Information Services (LIS), Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Potsdam, Germany
2 Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
3 KIT Library, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
4 Centre for GeoInformation Technology (CeGIT), Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Potsdam, Germany
DOI
10.7287/peerj.preprints.21v1
Published
Accepted
Subject Areas
Computational Science, Legal Issues, Science Policy
Keywords
Research Data Repositories, Research Data Repositories, Research Data, Data Repositories, Open Research Data, Open Science, Data Sharing, e-Infrastructures
Copyright
© 2013 Pampel et al.
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This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Cite this article
Pampel H, Vierkant P, Scholze F, Bertelmann R, Kindling M, Klump J, Goebelbecker H, Gundlach J, Schirmbacher P, Dierolf U. 2013. Making research data repositories visible: the re3data.org registry. PeerJ PrePrints 1:e21v1

Abstract

Researchers require infrastructures that ensure a maximum of accessibility, stability and reliability to facilitate working with and sharing of research data. Such infrastructures are being increasingly summarized under the term Research Data Repositories (RDR). The project re3data.org – Registry of Research Rata Repositories has begun to index research data repositories in 2012 and offers researchers, funding organizations, libraries and publishers an overview of the heterogeneous research data repository landscape. Information icons help researchers to easily identify an adequate repository for the storage and reuse of their data. This article describes the RDR landscape, outlines the practicality of re3data.org as a service, and shows how this service helps to find research data.

Supplemental Information

The aspects of a Research Data Repository documented in the re3data.org vocabulary.

DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.21v1/supp-1

The re3data.org icon system.

DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.21v1/supp-2

The home page of the re3data.org search.

DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.21v1/supp-3

The hit list of a search.

DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.21v1/supp-4

A detailed description of a Research Data Repository.

DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.21v1/supp-5