re3data – Indexing the Global Research Data Repository Landscape Since 2012

For more than a decade, re3data, the global Registry of Research Data Repositories, hashelped researchers, funding agencies, libraries, and data centers to find, identify, andreference research data repositories. As the world’s largest directory of such infrastructures,re3data currently describes over 3,000 repositories on the basis of a comprehensivemetadata schema. The service allows searching for research data repositories of any typeand from all disciplines. Users can filter results based on a wide range of characteristics. There3data descriptions are available as open data accessible through an API and are utilizedby numerous open science services. re3data is engaged in various initiatives and projects concerning data management and ismentioned in the policies of many scientific institutions, funding organizations, andpublishers. Notable examples include the European Commission, the National ScienceFoundation (NSF), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Moreover, a diverse array ofstakeholders utilizes data from re3data to augment their community services, such as theEuropean Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and the National Research Data Infrastructure(NFDI) in Germany. Through its service, re3data supports the discoverability of trustworthyresearch data repositories. In our poster, we reflect on the ten-year experience of running re3data and discuss tenkey issues related to the management of an Open Science service that caters to researchdata repositories and their users worldwide. These encompass: (1) Our ongoing commitment to openness,(2) the pivotal role of quality assurance in service operation,(3) our proactive engagement with the global infrastructure and Open Science communities,(4) the importance of interoperability to enable automated data flows,(5) the necessity for continuous development,(6) ensuring sustainability in the face of changing demands,(7) the service's entrenchment in research data policies and other Open Science regulations,(8) the emphasis on data reuse for re3data,(9) the various research endeavors that utilize re3data, and(10) the significance of public outreach efforts to amplify the visibility of such aninternationally utilized service This poster is based on: Pampel, H., Weisweiler, N. L., Strecker, D., Witt, M., Vierkant, P., Elger, K., Bertelmann, R., Buys, M., Ferguson, L. M., Kindling, M., Kotarski, R., & Petras, V. (2023). Re3data – Indexing the Global Research Data Repository Landscape Since 2012. Scientific Data, 10(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02462-y