Archive for September 28th, 2021

A comparison of searches based on metadata records from three (update: five) research repositories.

Tuesday, September 28th, 2021

In the previous blog post, I looked at the metadata records registered with DataCite for some chemical computational modelling files as published in three different repositories. Here I take it one stage further, by looking at how searches of the DataCite metadata store for three particular values of the metadata associated with this dataset compare.

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A comparison of descriptive metadata across different data repositories.

Tuesday, September 28th, 2021

The number of repositories which accept research data across a wide spectrum of disciplines is on the up. Here I report the results of conducting an experiment in which chemical modelling data was deposited in six such repositories and comparing the richness of the metadata describing the essential properties of the six depositions.

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