KTH data repository based on InvenioRDM

The rapid development of new digital research practices has changed the ways of sharing scientific knowledge. This provides both new opportunities for sharing digital research artifacts as well as new challenges when it comes to complexity in the evolving digital landscape.

One key challenge is to enable sharing of digital research artifacts to promote research transparency for different research domains while still maintaining the legal and ethical responsibilities at the University level. Solving issues related to this key challenge requires both technical solutions as well as cultural change.

Our approach has been to work in parallel with setting-up a new digital repository while evolving a new data governance model in dialog with test-users. This dialog has also been helpful in gaining understanding on data stewardship practices and roles needed in different research communities in order to document, curate and maintain FAIR data over time. This approach also included established partnership with the InvenioRDM project to develop the open source framework used for the digital repository.

Conclusions will be presented more thoroughly during the presentation, but we see a cross-functional approach where people with different skills and experiences are engaged to contribute as necessary for enabling change to happen.