Comparative study of Data Repository Software with

Data Repository: The Why Easy information discovery
Easy and efficient access
More contact and intensify impact
Persistent access (through persistent URL) i.e. make data citable through the assignment of DOI (Digital Object Identifier)
Long-term storage and preservation
Allows unprecedented use, analysis and finding through interoperability and interlinking with other repositories.
Most major federal grant agencies require data access as mandatory part of the grant proposal /oversite process (NIH, NSF, NEH, USDA)<br>

Data Repository: The Why Collecting all data at one place
Statistics on downloads and citations<br>

What makes Data Management Repositories useful? Makes available faculty, departmental and institutional research
Allows publication of negative data<br>

Research Data Repository software Characteristics Hosted locally or remotely on a server
Software contains collaborative options
Open source or proprietary software
Wide variety of data types (Excel to SPSS to various discipline specific formats)<br>

Perceived Benefits of Data Repository Can share publications and research data
Make research data more widely available
Statistics available on downloads and citations of data
Savings various versions of dataset (data lifecycle)
Collecting all data in one place<br>

Research data management tools A survey was done to identify currently implemented standards, requirements and features related to research data repositories.
Based on this, five well-known platform is chosen in this study, namely
DSpace, CKAN, Zenodo, Figshare and Dataverse.
These tools are considered and evaluated them according to a set of key aspects:
architecture,
metadata handling capabilities,
interoperability,
content dissemination,
search features and community acceptance.<br>

Architecture<br>

Architecture…<br>

Architecture…<br>

Architecture Most of the above mentioned software are open source based and have given some flexibility to the users.
Speedy and simple deployment of the used software is a crucial part for the implementation.
Open source software can be installed in house whereas platforms like Figshare and Zenodo are to be installed and implemented by the help of the developer.
Dspace, Dataverse & CKAN have better control in the recorded data as they are open source.<br>

Architecture… The proprietary software viz Figshare or Zenodo are not viable platform for the researchers and the institution as they have to rely on the developers.
DSpace, CKAN, Dataverse and Zenodo permit a customization with improvements ranging from small interface modification to the development of new data imagining plugins to satisfy the needs of their users: while Zenodo allows parametrization settings such as community-level can be further customized.
DSpace, Zenodo and Dataverse permit users to stipulate embargo period whereas CKAN and Figshare have options for reserved storage to let researchers control the data publication mode.<br>

Metadata Zenodo and Figshare software are able to export records that comply with established metadata schemas (Dublin Core and MARC-XML respectively).
DSpace goes further by exporting DIPs (Dissemination Information Package) that include METS metadata records, thus enabling the ingestion of these packages into a long-term preservation workflow.<br>

Metadata… Although CKAN and Dataverse metadata records do not follow any standard schema, the platform allows the inclusion of a dictionary of key-value pairs that can be used to record domain specific metadata as a complement to generic metadata descriptions.
Neither platform natively supports collaborative validation stages where curators and researchers enforce the correct data and metadata structure, but Zenodo allows the users to create a highly curated area within communities, as highlighted in the “validation” feature.
Every deposit will have to be validated by the community curator, if the policy of a particular community specifies manual validation.
There is an important issue to tracking content changes in data management. CKAN provides an auditing trail of each deposited dataset by showing all changes made to it since its deposit.<br>

Interoperability and Dissemination All of the evaluated platforms allow the development of external clients and tools as they already provide their own APIs for exposing metadata records to the outside community, but there are some differences regarding standards compliance.
Zenodo and DSpace natively comply with the OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) protocol.
This is a widely-used protocol that promotes interoperability between repositories while also streamlining data dissemination, and is a valuable resource for harvesters to index the contents of the repository.<br>

Advantage of DSpace Can comply with domain-level metadata schemas
Is open-source and has a wide supporting community
Has an extensive, community maintained documentation
Can be fully under institutions control
Structured metadata representation
Complaint with OAI-PMH
Supports Dublin Core, and MARCXML for metadata exporting<br>

Advantage of CKAN Is open-source and widely supported by the developer community
Features extensive and comprehensive documentation
Allows deep customization of its features<br>

Advantage of CKAN… Can be fully under institutions control
Supports unrestricted (non standards-compliant) metadata
Has faceted search with fuzzy-matching
Records datasets change logs and versioning information<br>

Advantage of Figshare Gives credit to authors through citations and references
Can export reference to Mendeley, DataCite, RefWorks, Endnote, NLM and Reference Manager
Records statistics related to citations and shares
Does not require any maintenance<br>

Advantage of Zenodo Allows creating communities to validate submissions
Supports Dublin Core, MARC and MARCXML for metadata exporting
Can export references to BibTeX, DataCite, DC, EndNote, NLM, RefWorks
Complies with OAI-PMH for data dissemination
Does not require any maintenance
Includes metadata records in the searchable fields<br>

Advantage of Dataverse Is open-source and widely supported by the developer community
Data Citation automatically generated
Multiple Publishing Workflows
Faceted Search as well as tags can be used for searches<br>

Advantage of Dataverse… Already defines roles and also custom roles can be designed and assigned to the users
Branding, metadata based facets, sub-dataverses, featured dataverses,
Re-format, Summary Statistics, and Analysis for Tabular Files integration with TwoRavens<br>

Advantage of Dataverse… Mapping of Geospatial files and integration with WorldMap
Restricted Files as well as ability to request access to restricted files
three level of Metadata i.e. description/citation, domain-specific or custom fields, file metadata<br>

Advantage of Dataverse… Search API, data deposit API etc
Notifications will be generated to the user and also will be communicated by mail for access request, roles, and when data is published
CC0 waiver default, terms of use can be customised by user, and download statistics
Can export reference to EndNote XML, RIS Format, or BibTeX Format<br>

Conclusion Dataverse, CKAN and DSpace’s open-source licenses were highlighted that allow them to be updated and customized, while keeping the core functionalities intact.
There is live demo of Dataverse, CKAN, DSpace and Zenodo.
CKAN is mainly used by governmental institutions to disclose their data, its features.
DSpace enables system administrators to parametrize additional metadata schemas that can be used to describe resources.<br>

Conclusion… Dspace is often compared with Dataverse and is used for storing scientific data.
Zenodo and Figshare provide ways to reserve a permanent link and a DOI, even if the actual dataset is under embargo at the time of first citation.
Dspace, Dataverse and CKAN can be installed in an institutional server instead of relying on external storage provided by contracted services.<br>

Conclusion… Dataverse repository software focuses mainly on social science data, its improvisational tools to analyze and explore only for tabular data.
Geospatial data is handled by the Dataverse and with the help of worldmap
Dataverse also has some features like Guestbook template which allows to record the details of the users downloading the data<br>

Re-Mix Harvesting XML format
Notification through e-mail whenever update is made.
LiveDVD-Koha, DSpace, VuFind, SubjectsPlus, and WordPress. Plugin of VuFind.<br>

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