Bridging the Silos of Institutional Data Repositories: Community Collaboration and Cross-Institutional Development
Mikala Narlock1, Jake Carlson2
1Indiana University, United States of America; 2University at Buffalo
Institutional repositories (IRs) play a crucial role in preserving and sharing scholarly outputs, yet they often operate in isolation, limiting their potential to support a truly integrated open data ecosystem. Through the Repository Readiness Project, led by the Data Curation Network (DCN), data stewards and repository specialists explored strategies for developing more interconnected and effective research data services.
The project culminated in the Summit for Academic Institutional Readiness in Data Sharing (STAIRS), which brought together over 100 institutional stakeholders including librarians, IT professionals, and administrators from Offices of Research from US academic institutions to address research data management challenges. Key findings reveal the critical need for cross-institutional collaboration, shared standards, and a more holistic approach to data sharing infrastructure. This research highlights that effective data management cannot be achieved by libraries or individual institutions in isolation but requires strategic engagement and an active community of practice within and across institutions throughout the research lifecycle.
In this presentation, we will provide background information on the project as well as recommendations for funding agencies, academic institutions, and research collaborators, focusing on three primary strategies: fostering cross-institutional collaboration, establishing centralized resource banks, and strengthening institutional data services.
The unification of the effort: the Swedish university RDM network
Karin Westin Tikkanen
Swedish National Data Service, Sweden
The presentation offes an outline of the background of the Swedish National Data Service, a national collaborative network for research data management at Swedish universities, aimed at giving researchers and students direct access to needed help when it comes to finding and re-using research data, as well as structuring, organising and sharing data they have work with themselves.
The presentation will feature the history and structure of the network, the shared effort involved in the collaboration, steps taken to secure a willingness to participate, and the structure of the local network access points at the different participating universities. The presentation will also introduce the next step in this process, the launch of the new portal Researchdata.se (scheduled for March 2025).
Advancing Indigenous Data Sovereignty through Dataverse and Local Contexts Integration
SONIA BARBOSA1, James Myers1, Ashley Rojas2
1Harvard University, United States of America; 2localcontexts.org
In 2022, the annual Dataverse Community meeting theme was “Indigenous Data Sovereignty.” Following this meeting, Dataverse used an opportunity with the NIH-funded GREI repositories initiative and conversations with Local Contexts (LC) to start collaborating to advance Indigenous data sovereignty in the Dataverse-supported repository. The proof-of-concept integration allows data depositors to link to a Local Context Hub registered project or item(s) using a Local Contexts Project metadata block built into Dataverse and released in 2025. TK Labels and Notices are registered and maintained by indigenous authorities in the LC Hub site and appear on the Dataverse Dataset metadata and landing pages. This presentation will provide a technical overview of the LC Hub - Dataverse Integration Project and highlight potential community use cases and planned improvements
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