Repository Engagement in the German NFDI (REGEN)

The Registry of Research Data Repositories re3data.org is a major directory [1] of research data repositories across all disciplines worldwide and makes metadata on repositories for the permanent storage and access of data sets openly available according to re3data's Metadata Schema Version 4.0. It is widely used by researchers to identify repositories to find and deposit data. Funders and publishers recommend re3data to guide investigators and authors to reposi-tories to meet their requirements for sharing the data that support grant-funded research and publications. [2], [3] Librarians and lecturers use re3data to promote data literacy. [4], [5], [6] Other service providers such as DataCite and OpenAIRE integrate with the registry to feed information about data repositories into scholarly workflows. As such, it plays a key role in fos-tering data accessibility, preservation, interoperability, and reuse. The registry acts as a refer-ence point for repository metadata, providing a comprehensive overview of the landscape. [7], [8], [9] Similarly, it allows for analysing and monitoring developments within the repository landscape. Curating the repository information is therefore crucial and contributes to high standards in data management, follows the FAIR principles and promotes a culture of open science. Due to the broad uptake by the community and participation of institutions across the German research landscape, a collaboration of the NFDI with re3data offers a unique opportunity to comprehensively map repository information that is important for researchers. The high-quality, comprehensive, and up-to-date records will inform decisions on where best to store research data, depending on the needs and requirements. Additionally, it improves the exposure of re-search data infrastructures of the NFDI, including the data generated, to the international re-search community. To organize this community effort to curate the repository data, the Taskforce Metadata from the Section (Meta)data, Termino¬¬lo¬gies, Provenance of the NFDI aims to develop and propose an NFDI standard driven by the community, which recommends NFDI-wide registration and at least annual curation of affiliated repositories in re3data. NFDI standards are agreements adopted by the assembly of consortia for the whole of the NFDI. By accepting and implement-ing an NFDI standard to use re3data as a directory of repositories and to actively maintain the information contained therein, the NFDI will contribute to accurate record information of NFDI-relevant and recommended repositories. It will also encourage repositories to adopt and doc-ument current practices and standards. On the registry's side, dedicated NFDI profiles can be set up easily. The profile property de-scribes a set of repositories defined by a community. The NFDI consortia and communities will need to determine relevant criteria for recommended repositories. To support the adoption of this NFDI standard, this submission will demonstrate the simplicity of the suggest and the update process of a repository record in the registry. We want to facili-tate updates through the community via a guided process of submitting change requests for repositories affiliated with member institutions of the NFDI present at the conference. The de-tailed process will be illustrated on a poster and walked through by the presenters.