Repository Re-Curation for Open Science

Cite this blog as Habermann, T. (2023). Repository Re-Curation for Open Science. Front Matter. https://doi.org/10.59350/e265t-esh97

Metadata Game Changers attended the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, chairing a session and presenting two presentations and a poster.

The presentation given by Ted Habermann focused on how repository re-curation could help repositories of all kinds respond to the guidance in the OSTP Public Access Memo published during August 2022. One of the highlights was showing the result of the Dryad affiliation and ROR re-curation effort.

Number of publishers found by searching datacite commons for 92 repositories (20,483 works) meeting the criteria shown here using rors. The rors added to dryad for many of these organizations connected contributions by their researches visible to the global research infrastructure.

The DataCite Commons allows searches to find works associated with an organization using the ROR of the organization. Organizations with DataCite repositories matching three criteria were searched in DataCite Commons: 1) most common resourceTypeGeneral was dataset, 2) more than 100 records, 3) “Univ” or “College” or “UC” in the repository names. The RORs of these organizations were searched for works, yielding a total of 20,483 works, and the publishers of these works were retrieved. Dryad was the publisher of 6491 of the works (34%), more than 84 institutional repositories combined.

The RORs added to Dryad made the contributions of these organizations visible to the global research infrastructure.

We also showed that despite quite a few obstacles to connecting research articles to datasets, the number of connections for papers published by three publishers used by many AGU members found by CHORUS using ScholeXplorer is increasing.