RepOD– a new general-purpose Repository for Open Data

in the scientific landscape of Poland

Marta Hoffman-Sommer

Open Science Platform, ICM, University of Warsaw

Open Research Data: Implications for Science and Society, Warsaw, May 28-29, 2015

Research data sharing in Poland

1. Specialized, subject-specific repositories:

- well-established international data repositories, e.g. GenBank

- new local data repositories, e.g. ADS – Polish Social Data Archive

2. General-purpose data repositories:

- international repositories, eg. Figshare, Zenodo, etc.

Provide a platform for easy sharing of small

research data generated by the long tail of science

in Poland.

Extension of the open access infrastructure already developed by the

Open Science Platform, in particular the CeON Repository for scholarly

literature.

1. Get some researchers to share data, who would never have

thought about it otherwise.

2. Stir some movement in the Polish research community and get

more people to hear about data sharing.

3. Prepare a free, downloadable, modifiable „Research Data

Repository Package”:

a) Polish-language CKAN-based software

b) legal and policy documents for running a research data

repository in Poland

What do we expect to achieve?

1. Open source software

2. Developed by the not-for-profit Open Knowledge Foundation,

now managed by the CKAN Association

3. Data portal software aimed at „national and regional

governments, companies and organizations (…) wanting to make

their data open and available” → main interest: public data

Software used

Major modifications / extensions:

• Changes in metadata schema (in accordance with DataCite and

OpenAIRE guidelines)

• Implementation of the OAI-PMH

• Automatic assignment of DOIs

• Moderation: manual acceptance of deposited datasets before making

them public

Software customization

What data will we accept?

(1) related to research activity

(2) made open

● anyone can register

● all research fields

● all file formats

● only file uploads – no links

RepOD – policies

1. Licenses for files:

- Creative Commons licenses: CC-BY, CC-BY-SA, CC0

- Free software licenses for code

- No license: fair use

2. Each file in a dataset might have a separate rights statement

3. Metadata and the dataset as a whole under CC0 – mandatory

Licensing policy

RepOD – features

• views / downloads for individual datasets and files

• file preview

• links to related publications

• assign your dataset to an area of study (Social sciences, Technological

sciences, …) and to a resource type (image, software, text, …)

• add you dataset to a group that corresponds to a particular

university, institute, project, etc. – groups will be created upon

requests from users

How to use and cite the data

What and how to deposit,

legal issues

Why deposit?

Open Research Data: Implications for Science and Society, Warsaw, May 28-29, 2015

Developers: Mateusz Neumann, Tomasz Błażejczyk

Webmaster: Monika Maksymiuk

Graphics: Jakub Rakusa-Suszczewski

Legal issues: Krzysztof Siewicz

Coordination: Marta Hoffman-Sommer, Przemysław Kwiatkowski

and Jakub Szprot

msommer@icm.edu.pl

RepOD Team at ICM UW

www.repod.pon.pl(starting June 2015)