Objectives
The objectives of eShodhmanthan-RDR preservation and management activities for repository are as follows:
The preservation objectives of the eShodhmanthan are:
Ø To collect, preserve, and disseminate the data sets and related information generated by researchers affiliated with any of the Indian university or institutions who choose to deposit their content.
Ø To enable researchers affiliated with any of Indian university or institutions to comply with the mandates of funding agencies to manage, preserve, and share their research data; and
Ø To provide the means for users to discover and access the data sets and metadata generated by academics affiliated with any of Indian university or institutions over the long term.
Part of the eShodhmanthan-RDR vision in establishing a repository installation is to make research materials freely available to anyone, anywhere, and at any time for Indian researchers specific. The eShodhmanthan-RDR is an advocate for open access to scholarly work including research data.
The incentives to researchers for publishing and preserving their research data in the eShodhmanthan-RDR:
Ø Data that might be precariously stored on fragile, random, or unsustainable storage devices can be securely preserved for the long term;
Ø Data that might otherwise become neglected over time can be preserved and made accessible for other interested researchers to use and cite potentially providing wider visibility and impact for the research;
Ø Many funding agencies and scholarly journals require data management plans that detail how the data will be managed, made accessible, and preserved.
Install and maintain all preservation features that are core to the Dataverse application, resulting in selected preservation metadata and format conversion for tabular data uploads.
The Dataverse application includes features that support the preservation of the intellectual contents of data files via file format identification and format conversion for tabular data files. Support Participating Institutions who wish to export independent packages of selected dataset files and metadata from institutional collections in eShodhmanthan-RDR.
About us
eShodhmanthan RDR platform has been developed during doctoral research work of Dr. Prashant Shrivastava.
The title of doctoral thesis was " Prospects of Institutional Repositories in Research Data Management Services with Special Reference to Shodhganga ETD", submitted by Dr. Prashant Shrivastava under supervision of Prof. D.K Gupta.
Roles & Responsibilities
Users: responsible for uploading data files and metadata to the eShodhmanthan-RDR, as well as viewing and downloading data files and metadata accessible in the repository. Users must adhere to the repository’s Terms of Use available at (https://guides.dataverse.org/en/5.11.1/user/) as well as any policies and procedures governing their use of the service as set by participating universities and Institutions.
Participating Universities or Institutions: responsible for administering the use of eShodhmanthan at their institution. Institutions may subscribe to eShodhmanthan-RDR for their researchers and administrative rights for staff to manage their institutional collection within the eShodhmanthan- RDR repository. Institutions are responsible for oversight of the data uploaded to their institutional collection by setting collections policies and deposit guidelines, administering users and user rights, and handling takedown and copyright decisions. Institutions may also validate data deposits for quality and completeness via curation activities, including determining preferred file formats for deposit or supporting depositors with advice on file format conversions. Institutions for which eShodhmanth-RDR collection deposits comprise a part of their institutional collections may also design and implement additional preservation policies and procedures for their collection or for selected sub-collections or datasets within that collection.
Department of Library Science, Central University of Haryana: DLS, CUH will responsible for the guidance of administration of the eShodhmanthan-RDR Research Data Management Service Project Plan.
Strategies
eShodhmanthan-RDR Research Data Management Service Project Plan will proceed with strategies to promote research data management services best practices and research data literacy.
DLS, CUH will prepare eShodhmanthan-RDR Research Data Management Service trainers with in MLIS and PhD students. The eShodhmanthan-RDR based on Dataverse software's best practices for data management and preservation include:
Ø Automatic extraction of metadata from tabular files and FITS;
Ø Standard descriptive metadata schemas such as OAI DC, DDI (for statistical and social science), ISA- Tab (for biomedical), FITS (for astronomy);
Ø Re-formatting of tabular data to simple open format text files;
Ø Data and metadata versioning;
Ø Database maintenance;
Ø Checksum generation upon ingest (UNF for tabular data, MD5 for other files);
Ø Persistent URL – DOI (minted by DataCite);
Ø Deaccessioning of data, but not citation metadata, if necessary.
Scope
The eShodhmanthan-RDR accepts the responsibility to preserve and provide access to research data, including associated metadata and documentation that is properly deposited in the eShodhmanthan-RDR as per Harvard Dataverse support. This responsibility limited as per Harvard Dataverse Project provision of digital means to preserve and ensure ongoing access to said content for a minimum period of ten years after it is deposited in the eShodhmanthan-RDR. Long-term preservation of eShodhmanthan-RDR content, beyond the ten-year retention period, is subject to the eShodhmanthan-RDR selection criteria and goal under consultation with Harvard Dataverse policies.
The eShodhmanthan-RDR content will be selected and appraised according to the following preservation priorities and levels of commitment:
Ø Research data associated with publications – great effort will be made to ensure the long-term preservation of data associated with journal or scholarly publications, so long as the data meets the eShodhmanthan-RDR collection policies and eShodhmanthan-RDR remains the data’s hosted or cited repository.
Ø Stand-alone data publications with high research value – reasonable effort will be made to ensure the long-term preservation of data and metadata of stand-alone publications that library professionals identify as having high research value to the broader academic community.
Ø Other data files and materials – efforts may or may not be made to retain ephemeral materials considered to lack significant or long-term value, although particular files may be preserved on a select basis as appropriate.
Additionally, the eShodhmanthan-RDR will accept data submissions of any format, but only provides full support (i.e. data exploration, analysis, and meta-analysis via the TwoRavens suite of statistical tools) to tabular data preferably in the following formats:
SPSS (POR and SAV formats)
STATA
R data
CSV
These files can be in compressed ZIP format at ingest, however, they may not exceed 2 GB in size. Any individual file uploaded to the repository must be under 4GB, though any uploads over 2GB, and some below that threshold, may be slow or stall due to variables outside of eShodhmanthan-RDR 's control.
Please email us eshodhmanthan@gmail.com if you having trouble uploading files. If you have files over 4GB, we will consider support options on a case by case basis for eShodhmanthan-RDR.
Please see http://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/user/tabulardataingest/index.html and http://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/user/dataset-management.html for more specific information on data set and metadata formats.
Dispute Resolution
Researchers, universities, institutions and eShodhmanthan-RDR agree that any cause of action arising out of or related to the service or data will be adhere Harvard Dataverse Project Policies otherwise, such cause of action is permanently barred. The eShodhmanthan-RDR will provide as a toll to practice healthy research data management practices.
Special Features
eSHODHMANTHAN Research Data Repository may be a free research data management service for Indian Scholars.
eSHODHMANTHAN Research Data Management Service is very user friendly for researcher.
eSHODHMANTHAN RDR has support for all type of research data formats.
Version control of research data with in eSHODHMANTHAN RDR provides best help to researchers.
eSHODHMANTHAN Research Data Repository is a multifaceted service for all disciplines.
eSHODHMANTHAN RDR provides exclusive rights of research data to its author beyond administrative rights of repository administrator. Which provides support to researchers for sharing of their research data with out any hesitation.
eSHODHMANTHAN RDR provides open access to its published research data. Before publishing only authors of research data may manage it,
eSHODHMANTHAN research data repository uses DOI to make its provided research data persistent, unique and citable.
eSHODHMANTHAN research data repository uses URN to make its provided data persistent, unique and citable.
eSHODHMANTHAN is a initial free of cost Research Data Management Service for Indian Research.
Frequent Asked Question (FAQ)
Q1. What is research data?
Ans. Research data generates during life cycle of research from various methodologies. Research data is not limited up to numerical data, it may be in many different formats depend upon disciplines as images, videos, field records, artefacts, sound files, sketches etc.
Q2. What is Research Data Management Service?
Ans. Research Data Management Service is a complete system to take care all aspects research data related issues.
Q3. Why does research data management is required?
Ans. Research Data Management is required to organize, publish, archive, sharing and versioning of research data.
Q4. What is eShodhmanthan-RDR?
Q5. How can I join eShodhmanthan-RDR?
Q6. How can I receive my login credentials?
Ans. You may receive your login credentials within 24 hours of form submission.
Q7. How can I manage my research data on eShodhmanthan-RDR?
Ans. eShodhmanthan-RDR enables the researchers to manage their research data on a secured cloud space through datasets and dataverse.
Q8. What is eShodhmanthan-RDR technical framework?
Ans. eShodhmanthan-RDR is powered by dataverse, an open source web application.
Q9. What are the policies of eShodhmanthan-RDR?
Q10. If you have any other query not covered above?
