Open Research Data in Institutional Repositories. Approach and Practice of Polish Universities (original) (raw)

2021, international conference on big data

Research data is a type of data that is gaining importance in terms of both scientific value and commercialization potential. Research data is one of the essential parts of the entire data universe. It can be big data, small data, raw or processed data. In order to improve functionality, searchability and indexation, the data is associated with metadata and linking data, allowing it to be linked with other resources, databases, and reference data. Complex calculations are carried out on large amounts of research data generated as part of scientific experiments. An increasing number of universities prepare and implement an Open Access policy, following the latest international guidelines. To meet the conditions of these arrangements, scientific institutions in Poland implement projects to ensure open access to their employees' publications and Open Research Data. This paper presents the results of an analysis of four university repositories in Poland. The study covers, inter alia, the type of published data, database scope, institutions participating in the project implementation, and the possibility of re-use of open data (data sharing format, metadata format, applied ontologies and data schemas, information on linked data, legal licenses).