Managing research data at the University of Porto: requirements, technologies and services

• Type: Chapter or Part of a Book
• Date: 2013

Authors

João Rocha da Silva (Author) FEUP; Cristina Ribeiro (Author) FEUP; João Correia Lopes (Author) FEUP

Book

Title: Innovations in XML Applications and Metadata Management: Advancing Technologies

Pages: 174-197

ISBN: 9781466626690

Electronic ISBN: 9781466627000

Indexing

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Scientific classification

FOS: Natural sciences > Computer and information sciences

CORDIS: Physical sciences > Computer science > Informatics

Other information

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2669-0

Abstract (EN): This chapter consists of a solution for the management of research data at a higher education and research institution. The chapter is based on a small-scale data audit study, which included contacts with researchers and yielded some preliminary requirements and use cases. These requirements led to the design of a data curation workflow involving the researcher, the curator, and a data repository. The authors describe the features of the data repository prototype, which is an extension to the widely used DSpace repository platform and introduced a set of features mentioned by the majority of the interviewed researchers as relevant for a data repository. The data repository platform contributes to the curation workflow at the university, with XML technology at its core¿data is stored using XML documents, which can be systematically processed and queried unlike its original-format counterpart. This system is capable of indexing, querying, and retrieving, in whole or in part, datasets represented in tabular form. There is also the possibility of using elements from domain-specific XML schemas for the cataloguing process, improving the interoperability and quality of the deposited data.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 23