Data providers like libraries, archives and museums who want to have their collections discoverable via the discovery platform ReIReSearch are welcome to reach out to us, requesting to include relevant datasets for the study of religion in the platform.
ReIReSearch addresses the growing need of scholars in Religious Studies to discover more data, regardless of location with a platform where disparate digital resources and databases are searchable in a unified and standardised way. It’s a discovery platform bringing together metadata from different collection holders or data providers. Data providers can have the metadata of their relevant collections included in the platform. The metadata should be sufficiently rich to support optimal discovery and preferably contain a persistent link to a digital representation, though metadata only contributions are also accepted. At this point the data types accepted include books, manuscripts and journal articles metadata. In time, additional types such as archival records and research dataset descriptions will be added to the platform.
A data provider in the context of RESILIENCE supplies or makes primary and secondary data available to our community of researchers for reuse. Important data providers for RESILIENCE are libraries, archives and museums (GLAM sector) as they hold valuable collections that form the basis of research in Religious Studies. This target audience is important because RESILIENCE needs to work with data providers such as data librarians and data managers to improve access to relevant data for the Religious Studies community.
Data providers who want to have their collections discoverable via ReIReSearch can reach out to the general contact address resilience@fscire.it with a request to include relevant datasets on ReIReSearch. This first request should contain information on the content and technical state so the Data Unit can review the request and set up a virtual onboarding call to discuss the details.
More information and the basic content, legal and technical conditions can be read in our Data Management Plan, Deliverable D2.4.