Research Data Unipd supports research produced by members of the University of Padua. The service aims to facilitate data discovery, data sharing, and reuse as required by funding institutions (e.g. European Commission).
According to the University of Padua Policy on the Management of Research Data, data must be stored in a correct, complete and reliable way, respecting their integrity. They must also be accessible, identifiable, traceable, interoperable and, where possible, available for subsequent use as stated in the FAIR principles.
FAIR support in Research Data Unipd
To be Findable:
F1: (meta)data are assigned a globally unique and persistent identifier
A DOI is issued to every record published on Research Data Unipd (RDU).
F2: data are described with rich metadata (defined by R1 below)
RDU's metadata is compliant with DataCite Metadata schema minimum and recommended terms, with a few additional enrichments.
F3: metadata clearly and explicitly include the identifier of the data it describes
A DOI is automatically assigned to each record.
F4: (meta)data are registered or indexed in a searchable resource
Each record's metadata is indexed and searchable directly in RDU's search engine immediately after publishing. Metadata is sent to the DataCite service during DOI registration and indexed there.
RDU records are harvested by OpenAIRE. Depositing once in RDU, you can use the OpenAIRE EXPLORE service to ensure that research results are linked to your financed project, in order to report your publication and data directly to the European Commission.
To be Accessible:
A1: (meta)data are retrievable by their identifier using a standardised communications protocol
Metadata can be harvested using the OAI-PMH protocol.
Metadata is also retrievable through the public REST API.
A1.1: the protocol is open, free, and universally implementable
OAI-PMH and REST are open, free and universal protocols.
A1.2: the protocol allows for an authentication and authorization procedure, where necessary
Metadata is publicly accessible and licensed under the CC0 license (see https://unipd.it).
A2: metadata are accessible, even when the data are no longer available
Data is stored for long-term preservation.
Metadata is always public.
Data is stored for long-term presentation.
Exceptions are regulated by the Takedown Policy.
To be Interoperable:
I1: (meta)data use a formal, accessible, shared, and broadly applicable language for knowledge representation.
RDU uses XML metadata based on the DataCite, INSPIRE, and DDI standards developed by the UK Data Archive as its internal representation of metadata and offers exports to other popular formats, e.g. Dublin Core, JSON, JSON-LD/Schema.org, DataCite, and others.
I2: (meta)data use vocabularies that follow FAIR principles
For certain terms, we refer to open, external vocabularies, such as for accessibility. The repository uses the standard ERC subjects classification.
I3: (meta)data include qualified references to other (meta)data
References to other (meta)data are made via qualified links, such as in Related Items, or by using ORCIDs for personal entities.
To be Reusable:
R1: (meta)data are richly described with a plurality of accurate and relevant attributes
Each record contains a minimum of DataCite, INSPIRE and DDI mandatory metadata, including metadata for publications and funders.
R1.1: (meta)data are released with a clear and accessible data usage license
Data licenses are applied, from Creative Commons licenses to software, database licenses and public domain.
R1.2: (meta)data are associated with detailed provenance
Each data and metadata modification and the user is logged in the document history, enhancing data traceability.
Metadata about geographic coverage, geographic location, data collection method, statement on legal, ethical and access issues, and data processing and preparation activities are available to the user.
R1.3: (meta)data meet domain-relevant community standards
RDU is a generic, multi-domain repository.
Metadata meets relevant community standards (see I1).
Access and re-use of data
All published metadata are released under a CC0 licence.
The depositing user is encouraged to license the datasets to promote the reuse of research data.
Those who reuse records must recognise the creators of the datasets clearly and appropriately; the Archive provides users with tools to produce citations in various citation styles.
Persistent Identifiers
The Archive automatically assigns a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to each dataset.
The dataset metadata can be further enriched by including the authors' ORCID identifiers, as well as the URLs and DOIs of publications where the datasets serve as underlying data or supplementary material.
