Research Data Sharing and Valorization

11Community-Driven Open Reference for Research Data Repositories (COREF) – A Project for Further Development of re3data

Nina WEISWEILER¹ and Gabriele KLOSKA²

¹Helmholtz Open Science Office am Deutschen GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Potsdam, Germany

²Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany

Before speaking about the COREF project, please could you describe the main purpose and mission of re3data?

re3data is a global registry for research data repositories and covers research data repositories from all different academic disciplines. It includes repositories that enable permanent storage of and access to data, for researchers and funding bodies, for publishers and also for scholarly institutions. The re3data mission is to promote a culture of sharing and increased access and visibility of research data.

What are the main functionalities of the re3data platform?

The first, which is pretty obvious, is the search and discovery of research data repositories. That’s the main purpose of re3data: helping people to find appropriate repositories to search research data or to deposit research datasets. This is very relevant for our end users, for the researchers themselves but also for data curators or data librarians.

Then we have a second area, which is also quite important, especially within the COREF project, which is the reuse, administrating and referencing of re3data metadata. Our metadata is being used by discovery systems and other infrastructures to enrich their own metadata ...