Dr. Sandra Gisela Martín from the re3data Editorial Board delivered a featured lecture, “re3data: Global Registry of Research Data Repositories”, at the Second Meeting of Colombian Institutional Repository Managers and Open Science (II Encuentro de Gestores de Repositorios Institucionales de Colombia y Ciencia Abierta, ERICCA 2024), which was held in Cartagena, Colombia, September 25-27. Convened by the Colombian Ministry of Science, Technology

Summer Meeting of the Editorial Board The re3data.org editorial board was able to get together in person over the summer, meeting for two days in June at the library of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). It was a great opportunity to on-board our new editors and to reconnect with colleagues to focus on updates and improvements to the registry. In addition to the work, the group enjoyed good food and fellowship in the evening.

The re3data Editorial Board is pleased to welcome seven new members: Dalal Hakim Rahme, Coordinator of Content Curation, United Nations Rene Faustino Gabriel Junior, Professor, Universidade Federal do Rio Grando do Sul Sandra Gisela Martín, Library Director, Universidad Católica de Córdoba Tekleweyni Geday, Lecturer, Mekelle University Theodora Bloom, Executive Editor, BMJ Vaidas Morkevičius, Professor, Lithuanian Data Archive for Social

re3data Call for Editorial Board The re3data.org registry has been in operation for over 10 years and provides a curated index of over 3,000 research data repositories around the world from all disciplines. New repositories are identified and reviewed by an international editorial board who bring different subject, language, and cultural backgrounds to catalog and represent a diverse and ever-growing data repository landscape.

re3data caters to a range of needs for diverse stakeholders (Vierkant et al., 2021). Detailed and precise repository descriptions are at the heart of the majority of these use cases, and repository metadata are given special attention at the re3data registry.

Currently, re3data offers unrestricted access to comprehensive descriptions of more than 3100 research data repositories from all disciplines and all regions. The repository descriptions are based on the re3data Metadata Schema.

Collaboration has always been a central principle for re3data. This is reflected in the fact that research communities, repository providers, and other relevant stakeholders contribute significantly to the completeness and accuracy of the re3data metadata as well as its further technical and conceptual development.

The objective of the workshop was to approach the pervasive, yet elusive topic of data quality management from several angles. To ensure a common frame of reference for the workshop, contributions were guided by the Framework for Quality Assurance of Data Publications at Research Data Repositories that was developed as part of a PhD project.

In this post, the authors celebrate the 10th anniversary of re3data, sharing insights about the history, the service itself, and how it has developed over the last decade. The post was published simultaneously on the DataCite Blog. The re3data registry went online in 2012 and is celebrating a decade of curation and making information about data repositories available to the research community.

Data quality assurance is a fundamental issue for repositories that seek to ensure trust in their services. This workshop focused on measures research data repositories undertake to ensure data quality. The objective of this workshop was to raise awareness and make the various activities repositories perform to assure, assess, and improve data quality visible.