Karoline Harzenetter
Research Associate, Social Sciences Data Archive
GESIS, Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Kerrin Borschewski
Research Associate, Social Sciences Data Archive
GESIS, Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
To ensure the access and exchange of scientific information without a common documentation standard is an enormous challenge considering the rising amount of decentralized research data production. For the reliable provision and transfer of research data, a central registry is needed to ensure open data access. Data registration implies connecting research data with its providing institutions and enabling a precise identification of data in order to allow for research, location, citation and linking. The German registration agency for social and economic data (‘da|ra’) has been providing such a registration service, and added value, since 2011. da|ra is jointly run by the GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences and ZBW Leibniz Information Center for Economics. da|ra pursues the goal of long-term, persistent identification and availability of research data via allocation of digital object identifier (DOI) names. This presentation serves to introduce the policies and services of da|ra, as well as the current follow-up project ‘da|raSearchNet’, an integrated search index that enables users to do research inside an up-to-date database of references in one place with links to data holdings. We will discuss the system’s graphical user interface architecture for both DOI registration and for research data searches. We will also present conceptual and technically supported solutions for the complex maintenance, administration and extension of the metadata database, and describe our technical solutions for metadata sharing.
http://www.da-ra.de/en/home/
http://www.gesis.org/en/home/
http://www.zbw.eu/en/
https://www.datacite.org/
Presentation (PDF)