Content Findability Enhancing Services

Make your data discoverable and findable through the RESILIENCE Research Infrastructure by submitting your metadata.

For Whom

Are you working for a gallery, library, archive or museum, and interested in making your collections findable and discoverable? Do you want to attract academic users and specialised stakeholders? Do you wish to improve your visibility in the domain of Religious Studies? The content findability enhancing services by RESILIENCE are here for you!

About

One of the main goals of RESILIENCE is linking the offer and demand of data: this task is performed by a number of services and sub-services, including READIS (for federated access) and the Unified Discovery Environment (a discovery browser, currently available as ReIReSearch).

You can make your collections discoverable through these services by providing your metadata to RESILIENCE. In special cases, providing data is also possible. Please note that we are still entering the Preparatory Phase of RESILIENCE: for that reason, at least until January 2022, only ReIReSearch is actively implemented in the Research Infrastructure. In the following year(s) the Unified Discovery Environment will be gradually implemented, further improving the findability of content.

The possibility to provide metadata about collections to RESILIENCE is open to any individual or institution: all you need to do, is apply by writing collections@resilience-ri.eu, and provide information about the type of your collection and the technical structure of your metadata. Your application will be evaluated and, if successful, your collection will be made discoverable through RESILIENCE services. You will have the possibility to review your collection for final approval. Of course, you can also update or withdraw your metadata, if you wish so.

What We Offer

  • A searchable platform where your content can be discovered through the metadata you provide.
  • Integration of your metadata into the RESILIENCE eco-system, and beyond.
  • Full control on your metadata, provided it complies with RESILIENCE standards.

How You Benefit

  • Make your data findable to the Religious Studies research community.
  • Make your data findable to Religious Studies stakeholders.
  • Integration of your data in a wider eco-system.
  • Increased visibility of your collection.

How it Works

  1. Contact the mail address collections@resilience-ri.eu, describing the collection you want to submit. In particular, describe your dataset and provide information on the data and metadata model of the dataset, and data delivery protocols.
  2. Your submission will be evaluated and (if needed) you will receive instructions about mapping your dataset in accordance with RESILIENCE standards.
  3. The evaluation criteria can be summarised as: a) compatibility with the scope of Religious Studies; b) technical conditions of the dataset. Contact us for further details!
  4. After a successful evaluation the applicant will receive an “ingest agreement” to fill. The “ingest agreement” stipulates the exact definitions on data delivery, licensing, contact information etc., and covers either the metadata provided by you or (if applicable) the metadata and data you want to provide.
  5. Deliver your data (using OAI-PMH or via FTP transfer, or through cloud, where applicable): we will provide you instruction for doing so!
  6. Review with us the presentation of your metadata, so you can give your final approval.
  7. Data is then made available to the RESILIENCE RDM services, and through ReIReSearch as a RESILIENCE service.

The First Step

To begin the process, or just to ask for information, contact us at collections@resilience-ri.eu

Partners Involved

KU Leuven, FSCIRE, InfAI