The construction practice and prospects of global scientific data repository platform

Abstract

As an essential infrastructure, scientific data repositories play an important role in promoting the practice of open research data. As a bridge between polices and researchers, it makes the data sharing possible. However, it is a challenge to build a repository to be trustworthy and in compliant with FAIR principles. More and more guidelines on how to select a repository and what a trustworthy repository should be like have been brought up. The research elaborates several popular principles and extracts their common requirements. Upon those, the paper analyzes the repositories registered on the website of re3data and summarizes their current development. Moreover, the research focuses on the featured practices in some typical repositories, including domain-specific and generalist data repositories. At last, the research analyzes the development trend of international scientific data repositories in terms of trustworthiness, openness, and ecologization, which can be used as an instructive reference for the construction and development of similar platforms in China.