Data Repository Recommender

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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.

NIH:

• • https://www.nlm.nih.gov/NIHbmic/nih_data_sharing_repositories.html

Elsevier: 

• • https://www.elsevier.com/?a=57755
  • https://www.elsevier.com/books-and-journals/content-innovation/data-base-linking/supported-data-repositories
  • http://www.journals.elsevier.com/data-in-brief/policies-and-guidelines/public-repositories-to-store-and-find-data

Nature

• • http://www.nature.com/authors/policies/availability.html
  • http://www.nature.com/sdata/policies/repositories
  • http://www.nature.com/sdata/policies/data-policies

PLOS

• • http://blogs.plos.org/everyone/2015/07/02/plos-recommended-data-repositories/
  • http://journals.plos.org/plosone/s/data-availability#loc-recommended-repositories

Libraries

• • https://library.uoregon.edu/datamanagement/sharingdata.html
  • http://www.library.cmu.edu/datapub/dms/respositories

Other

• • http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/viewFile/9.1.152/349
  • http://www.rdc-drc.ca/wp-content/uploads/Review-of-Research-Data-Repositories-2015.pdf
  • AMS: https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/index.cfm/publications/authors/journal-and-bams-authors/journal-and-bams-authors-guide/data-archiving-and-citation/
  • AGU: http://publications.agu.org/files/2014/06/Data-Repositories.pdf
  • http://openarchaeologydata.metajnl.com/about/#repo

SEAD C3PR/Matchmaker

The SEAD Matchmaker is used to pair datasets to repositories. It was originally part of the SEAD Virtual Archive, which enabled automatic depositing of data into institutional repositories via OAIS Submission Information Packages (SIP).  The matchmaker is now part of the SEAD 2.0 C3PR service (https://github.com/Data-to-Insight-Center/sead2/tree/master/sead-matchmaker).  Repositories can register with C3PR, providing information including accepted data types, maximum collection depth, maximum dataset size, minimum metadata fields, affiliations, and global identifier requirements. These are to some extent technical requirements.

See also:

• • SEAD 2.0 Publication API Walkthrough:

  • Connecting Your Repository to SEAD

• • http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/view/8.2.172

• • 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/

Researcher identifiers

• ORCID: Persistent digital identifier for researchers – might be helpful in collecting researcher profile information for recommendation. ORCID doesn't appear to have a field.

Analysis

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

Use cases