Nationwide Research Data Management Service of Japan in the Open Science Era

Abstract

Recently, in Japan, there has been a great need in universities and research institutions to archive their research data for ten years because they need to maintain the reproducibility of data for ensuring research integrity and the promotion of open science. However, a research data management (RDM) service does not exist in Japan. Therefore, at the National Institute of Informatics (NII), we developed the next-generation RDM on a national scale by using the open science framework (OSF). We combined the RDM with the existing NII worldwide cyberinfrastructure services (SINET and GakuNin) and OSF add-ons for external Cloud services and institutional repositories. Finally, we displayed the first closed trial for nationwide RDM services in seven universities and a national research institute for research integrity; this helped promote open science in Japan in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2016. NII and participant organizations obtained some RDM operating know-how and discovered new issues by follow-up meetings. The source code is available on GitHub at (http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.546481); (http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.546480).