We are in the same boat as Queen’s. It usually takes a couple of emails to get the metadata at least “acceptable” (i.e. a meaningful description, a licence (which is not set by default in Pure), links to other outputs.).

 

Pure itself does a reasonable job with regards to our datasets.

http://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/datasets/search.html

Hardy

 

From: Research Data Management discussion list [mailto:RESEARCH-DATAMAN@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Chris Browne
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We are doing the same at Queen’s - http://pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/en/datasets/search.html.

 

Emily – How have you found researcher engagement with Pure? We allow researchers to create the metadata record themselves and I then review it, discuss amendments with them, assign a DOI, and validate. Often I have found that the initial data input by researchers is rather sparse and often we need to go back and forth a few times before we have a solid description, relevant links to other records, full list of contributors etc.

 

Best,

 

Chris

 

From: Research Data Management discussion list [mailto:RESEARCH-DATAMAN@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Emily Bennett
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Subject: Re: Pure as a research data calalogue and or repository

 

Hi all,

 

At Portsmouth we add datasets to Pure and display them on our Portal - https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/

 

We plan to carry on using Pure as the catalog for datasets, but over time we expect we'll need to connect it up 'behind the scenes' to a differeent file storage area. But from an end users' perspective, we'd always expect it to work how it's working now.

 

Emily

 

On 12 August 2016 at 07:23, David Groenewegen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi all,

Here at Monash we are also interested in doing the same sorts of things that have been discussed here. Our intended model is to use Pure as the repository for OA research publications (because the university wants to track compliance), and use our Figshare for Institutions for everything else. Ideally there would be easy two way data sharing between them (so that we can associate a dataset with a publication, or a grant with a dataset or lists datasets as research outputs in a researcher's profile).

Like Robin says it would be great if we could use DataCite metadata for this, especially now that it supports ORCID as well, which we see as a good way of describing our researchers.

Good to know we're not the only ones with these issues!

D

On 11/08/2016 10:36 PM, Khokhar, Masud wrote:

Hi Mariette and others,



That is true as of now but Pure APIs are likely to change a lot in the
next year. We provided a set of recommendations based on the work we did
here in the UK Pure User Group and with support from many international
groups. I am glad to see most of the recommendations have been accepted
by Elsevier in their roadmap for APIs. I will continue to pester them
about two way APIs as that was also a recommendation from our side.



This discussion is quite useful at this time as we are now coming to the
stage where Pure for datasets storage is no longer an attractive option
for us. Previously, for a quick deployment and familiarity reasons it
was, but as our data becomes complex, the cracks start showing up more
and more.



Best wishes,

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Hi Robin,



Since I’m managing our figshare implementation, but am not involved in
our Pure project and am not very well versed in API technology, I’m on
somewhat thin ice here – but here goes: it’s my understanding that the
Pure API doesn’t adequately support connections to import data from
other systems, but is able to handle xml files that are uploaded to
Pure. That means we’ll have our instance of figshare for institutions
produce xml files containing the metadata of datasets that need to be
registered in Pure, and upload those to Pure. Figshare has already
confirmed to us that they’re able to provide these xml files.



Best,

Mariëtte



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Hi Mariëtte,



Before going off list, I’d be really interested to know how you expect
to export records from the data repository to import them into Pure? Has
that been worked out yet, or just on the to-do list? I ask because we
have found that there is a serious limitation of the interoperability of
Pure that does not allow batch import of metadata, either via a standard
or an API.



There is a workaround I continue to hope for – if the company would
implement the DataCite API, such that one could enter a DOI and have it
automatically fill in the minimum DataCite metadata fields, picking up
the info from DataCite, the way it does for PubMed records. Then,
although still not batch, it would make entering one record at a time
much easier. It has implemented the DataCite API for purposes of minting
DOIs but not for this purpose. This continues to be a major bugbear of
mine, so would be thrilled to know someone has found a solution, if so.



(I already mentioned to Laurence that we use Pure for our data asset
register although we have DataShare for our institutional data repository.)



Cheers,



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Hi Laurence,



By the end of this year we’ll hopefully have three systems in place at
the University of Amsterdam:



-        Pure will succeed Metis as our Current Research Information
System (CRIS),

-        Digital academic repository UvA-DARE, a Fedora-based solution,
will remain our publications repository, and

-        Figshare for institutions will become available as our research
data repository



Researchers now upload publications (preprints etc.) to UvA-DARE via
Metis. As soon as Pure replaces Metis, the upload process will be routed
via Pure.



With regard to research data, we’ll be doing things sort of ‘the other
way around’: researchers will upload their data to our instance of
figshare for institutions and provide metadata; the metadata of
/published/ datasets will be exported to Pure to register these datasets
as research outputs.



At the moment it’s our priority to get Pure and figshare each up and
running and available to researchers. Next calendar year we hope to
implement a connection between figshare and Pure.



Feel free to drop me a line off-list, I’ll be more than happy to forward
any questions you may have to my colleagues who are working on the
implementation of Pure.



Best,
Mariëtte





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Hello,



Is anyone using Pure as a research data catalogue and/or repository? I’m
looking for some guidance shaped by experience or for anyone considering
using it.



Laurence Horton

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