Browsing by Author "T R, Manu"

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    Development of Interoperable RDRs System in India: A Conceptual Proposal
    (INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2023-11-17) T R, Manu; Gala, Bhakti
    RDM services in India is at the nascent level. Most of the libraries are still exploring opportunities and gaining knowledge in this emerging area to implement RDM services in the future fully. RDR is one of the essential RDM services offered by libraries. In India, there are over 50 RDRs are covered in re3data.org. But the maximum of them are general data repositories that cover factual data sources. Also, these repositories are separate among institutional, ministries/funding agencies and national data repositories and have duplicate data elements. In India, there is a need to develop a national RDR that is interoperable with ministry/ funding agencies level and institutional level RDRs and need to establish the national level research data services like UK Data Service, Research Data Canada, Research Data Management - Science Europe, National Research Data Infrastructure Germany, Swedish National Data Service (SND), Landelijk Coördinatiepunt Research Data Management (LCRDM) - Netherlands etc. to take the initiative of developing the national level interoperable RDR system in India. Therefore, in this research study, researchers have proposed developing an interoperable RDR system in India. It also identified the pillars of RDM interoperability and RDM stakeholders in India. It proposed the RDR system in India, which comprises institutional, disciplined or ministries and higher education departments, and national level central RDR.
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    Landscape of Metadata Schemas for Research Data Repositories: FAIRsharing Analysis
    (INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2023-11-17) T R, Manu; Hasan, Nabi
    Research data is the recorded information generated while conducting research, writing an article, theses and dissertations, and other research processes. Providing access to research data is a challenge for all stakeholders in the research community. Metadata schemas contain metadata properties describing a research data repository, such as general scope, content, infrastructure, technical, quality, and metadata standards. Several metadata schemas are available for describing the research data repository. However, to facilitate the selection of an appropriate metadata standard for the research repository, the RDA Metadata Standards Directory, re3data.org, and FAIRsharing have compiled a list of metadata schemas in a single platform. FAIRsharing is a curated platform for information and education resources on data and metadata standards, inter-related to databases and data policies. Therefore, researchers preferred FAIRsharing to undertake a study on the assessment of the landscape of metadata schemas indexed by the platform with objectives of identifying the list of metadata schemas, studying their growth and development, distinguishing the disciplinary metadata schemas, identifying the country-wise contributions, organizations, funding and government bodies and institutional contributions in developing and actively maintaining metadata schemas, etc. The result found that FAIRsharing has covered over 1600 metadata schemas covering all the major domains of science and technology, medicine, management, arts & humanities, and social science. It has overwhelming organizations to maintain and fund developing the metadata schemas. The maximum of the metadata schemas is attributed by the Creative Commons attribution, GNU General Public License, Open Data Commons Attributions, etc. Overall, the study found it worthy for data curators, metadata creators, data repository developers, policymakers, research data librarians, etc., to select the appropriate metadata schema for the research data repository.