RepOD – Repository for Open Data
Marta Hoffman-Sommer
Open Science Platform, Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and
Computational Modelling, University of Warsaw
OpenAIRE NOAD for Poland
What is RepOD?
A repository for self-archiving of research data
– open to the entire Polish academic community.
RepOD accepts data:
(1) research-related
(2) open
➞ from all fields of research
➞ any file format
➞ not exceeding 50 GB per dataset
(larger upon individual arrangements)
repod.pon.edu.pl
Current statistics
•
68 registered users
•
34 public datasets
•
> 450 GB of data available
What does the repository offer?
• Secure, long-term storage
• Findability through good metadata (DataCite Metadata Kernel)
and through visibility in the OpenAIRE infrastructure (metadata
transfer using the OAI-PMH protocol)
• Persistent identifier (DOI)
Additional selected features
• assign dataset to an area of study (Biological and earth sciences, Social sciences,
Technological sciences, …) and to a resource type (image, audiovisual, software, text, …)
• links to related publications (preferably with DOI)
• rights statement (licensing)
• funding information
• grouping of datasets from particular universities, institutes, projects, etc. – upon request
• statistics (views / downloads)
• file preview
• user interface and user support in Polish and English
DOI service
• DOIs offered through an agreement with the DOI registration office at
the German National Library of Science and Technology in Hannover.
• DOI pre-reservation: DOI number assigned at time of dataset
creation, registered at time of dataset publishing – DOI is known and
can be included in the text of a research article.
• Possibility of small corrections in the dataset without changing DOI.
DOIs are a major motivation for our users to choose the service:
they want DOIs to be sure that their data is easily citable.
Challenges
1. Granularity: what is the citable unit of a dataset?
2. Versioning: when is a change in the dataset large enough to require
the assignment of a new DOI?
– we leave these problems entirely to our users
Thank you
Contact:
[email protected]