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Background 

Registries of Research Data Repositories

There are (at least) two major registries of research data repositories.  Publishers and funding agencies often direct researchers to search for repositories using these tools:

• • http://www.re3data.org/
  • https://biosharing.org/

Approved and Recommended Repositories 

Publishers, funding agencies, research/domain organizations, and libraries often provide lists of recommended or supported repositories for depositing research data.  The motivations and requirements are often different, but the lists themselves might serve as the basis for our requirements analysis. We can review these (and other) lists to determine the factors in recommending data repositories to researchers.

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• • https://github.com/Data-to-Insight-Center/sead2/tree/master/sead-matchmaker

  • SEAD 2.0 Publication API Walkthrough:

  • Connecting Your Repository to SEAD

Registries of Research Data Repositories

http://www.re3data.org/
• https://biosharing.org/

Other sources of information:

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• Some of these repositories are crawlable or implement standard APIs (OAI-PMH) for harvesting metadata.  It might be interesting to consider whether we can harvest descriptive metadata – particularly citation informationinformation – and use journal or other publication metadata as part of the recommendation process.

Analysis

Reviewing the above lists and registries, we can identify factors in the recommendation of repositories to researchers:

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