Sharing research data across disciplines – ebook

The monograph consists of three essential parts, which are divided into chapters:

I – includes chapters detailing the activities directly related to the Bridge of Data project assumptions;
II – Data Management Practices;
III – consists of chapters taking the form of data descriptors.

All chapters of the data descriptor type have been created according to the standard. It is based on the best practices used in the reviewed scientific journals of the largest publishers. It contains the following essential elements: abstract, keywords, specification table containing primary data describing a dataset (subject area – research areas represented by this dataset described; More specific subject area – specification of research areas; Type of data; How the data were acquired – explaining how the data were obtained; Data format; Data source location; Data accessibility), Background (constituting a type of introduction and explanation), Methods, Data quality and availability (including a description of the method of obtaining data and maintaining quality thereof, as well as DOI number of the datasets described and the licence on which they are available).

All data sets described were deposited in the Open Research Data Catalogue repository on the Bridge of Knowledge platform (mostwiedzy.pl).