Data Depository and Data Management Plan - Academia Sinica Research Data Depository Team Visits CIRES
- 生態及永續科學跨領域研究中心 CIRES
- Feb 20, 2023
- 2 min read
Updated: Aug 7
Date: 2023.01.12
Site: CIRES meeting room, College of Environmental Studies and Oceanography
CIRES is a interdisciplinary team whose members specialize in both natural sciences and social sciences. The diverse types of research data present a significant challenge for data management and subsequent public disclosure. It was our pleasure to have Dr. Ting-Rui Chuang of the Academia Sinica and colleagues from the Research Data Depository visiting the center. The team has been promoting a community of practice for research data management in Taiwan from a bottom-up perspective.
Led by Director I-Fang Sun, the CIRES team began implementing the National Technology and Science Council's three-year integrated project, "Developing landscape-scale ecosystem service assessment to understand impacts of ground-mounting solar farms toward better socio-ecological governance," in August 2022. Data collected for the four ecosystem services, one socioeconomic, and one governance sub-projects include a wide variety of data types, including numerical values, maps, automated monitoring instrument data, questionnaires, and interviews. Metadata also provides varying information. Currently and in the future, we are developing databases for each dataset and using Morpho, a multilingual EML editing software developed by the Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB) and in collaboration with the Forestry Research Institute, to create more detailed metadata.
The open data repository shared by Dr. Chuang and the Research Data Depository team is crucial information for us. The Research Data Depository (depositar, https://data.depositar.io/), established and managed by the team, is the only data research infrastructure in Taiwan open to all researchers, providing research data storage and management. Its universality and minimal metadata requirements perfectly meet the diverse data needs of the CIRES team. Furthermore, project-based datasets can be made public at their own discretion, and when. Once published, data can be continuously updated, with version history displayed on the dynamic wall. Public datasets can be referenced by both our and other researchers. These features encourage us to deposit research data with Depositar, especially public-facing data, which can be searched and accessed by everyone after being made public, promoting data accessibility and ultimately achieving social communication goals.

CIRSE held a discussion with the depositar team.
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