How a ‘boring administrative task’ transformed my PhD career

"In March 2020, the collection went live. The Repository of Psychological Instruments in Serbian, known as REPOPSI, is a centralized, open-access repository — a place to store, share and organize questionnaires, mainly those adapted into Serbian or developed by Serbian scientists. It provides a good starting point for any psychology research project inside or outside the country. But REPOPSI also increases the visibility of scientific contributions from a region that is typically under-represented in the field. And it has transformed my PhD career....

REPOPSI wasn’t built from scratch; we relied on pre-existing, free — and usually open source — tools. Data are stored on the Open Science Framework. We use the code-sharing service GitHub and the data repository Zenodo for project management. The search app was developed in the R programming language, and we use the DataCite Metadata Schema and the Python programming language to make the metadata machine-readable. We have also added REPOPSI to various service registries, including re3data.org, FAIRsharing and OpenDOAR, to make it more discoverable...."