Dataset search in biodiversity research: Do metadata in data repositories reflect scholarly information needs?

ABSTRACT: The increasing amount of publicly available research data provides the opportunity to link and integrate data in order to create and prove novel hypotheses, to repeat experiments or to compare recent data to data collected at a different time or place. However, recent studies have shown that retrieving relevant data for data reuse is a time-consuming task in daily research practice. In this study, we explore what hampers dataset retrieval in biodiversity research, a field that produces a large amount of heterogeneous data. In particular, we focus on scholarly search interests and metadata, the primary source of data in a dataset retrieval system. We show that existing metadata currently poorly reflect information needs and therefore are the biggest obstacle in retrieving relevant data. Our

SUBMITTER: Loffler F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7990268 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature