New OSF Metadata to Support Data Sharing Policy Compliance

peter.suber's bookmarks 2023-02-01

Summary:

"One of the most important features of OSF is something you may not even be aware of, yet you use it all the time: Metadata. All OSF Projects, Registrations, and Preprints come with associated metadata — information about the OSF object like the title, description, or keywords. Sometimes metadata is so integral to research we may not even notice it as a distinct element (as may be the case with a title, or with the date something is created). But without that title, or description, or keyword your research becomes hard to find and even harder to understand.

Researchers are now able to add information about the types of materials they are sharing on the OSF, as well as sources of funding or support. With an increasingly large number of resources online, whether on the OSF or not, this kind of information is crucial to enable organization, discovery, and reuse of your research outputs.  This metadata is so essential, in fact, that a number of new policies from major national, international, and other funding and research support agencies are requiring it. A new Data Sharing Policy from the NIH, that just went into effect on January 25th, calls for sharing of a set of common data elements, including the funder and resource type information that our recent changes support. In addition to specific guidelines like those, other agencies and institutions are supporting the creation of more mature infrastructure for data sharing. The recent policy from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, (which we wrote about last fall), and the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science envision a research ecosystem that will need enhanced metadata to function...."

Link:

https://www.cos.io/blog/new-osf-metadata-to-support-data-sharing-policy-compliance

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Tags:

oa.new oa.osf oa.metadata oa.data oa.policies oa.compliance oa.policies.data oa.fair

Date tagged:

02/01/2023, 13:38

Date published:

02/01/2023, 08:38