Interoperability and Metadata Capability of Research Data Management’s Tools: A Comparative Study of DSpace and EPrints

Abstract

With the emergence of multidisciplinary subjects and research in different domains, managing information and research data has become difficult task and important concern for higher educational universities and research institutions. To handle this challenging task, several data management platforms have also emerged. This paper mainly focusses on current practices the workflow of managing research data and identify the different stakeholders and further comparing two-well-known open source repository platform DSpace and E-Prints considering their architecture, metadata, different search features & mechanism and community support with acceptance. Metadata in any repository plays an important role in ensuring to find out the data and reuse by researchers / educational institutes even outside of the original research group. To complete this paper, the requirement of different stakeholders have also been taken into consideration to evaluate the features.