Bridging the Data Discovery Gap: User-Centric Recommendations for Research Data Repositories

Mingfang Wu; Felicitas Löffler; Brigitte Mathiak; Fotis Psomopoulos; Uwe Schindler; Amir Aryani; Jordi Bodera Sempere; Antica Culina; Andreas Czerniak; Chris Erdmann; Kathleen Gregory; Nick Juty; Allyson Lister; Ying-Hsang Liu; Samantha Pearman-Kanza

doi:10.5334/dsj-2026-006

Authors

Mingfang Wu

Mingfang.Wu@ardc.edu.au

Australian Research Data Commons

Felicitas Löffler

felicitas.loeffler@tmdi.thueringen.de

Thuringian Ministry for Digitization and Infrastructure

Brigitte Mathiak

brigitte.mathiak@gesis.org

GESIS – Leibniz institute for the Social Sciences

Fotis Psomopoulos

fpsom@certh.gr

Institute of Applied Biosciences, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki

Uwe Schindler

uschindler@pangaea.de

PANGAEA, MARUM, University of Bremen

Amir Aryani

aaryani@swin.edu.au

Swinburne University

Jordi Bodera Sempere

jordi.bodera@esrf.fr

European Synchrotron Radiation Facility

Antica Culina

aculina@irb.hr

Ruder Boskovic Institute

Andreas Czerniak

andreas.czerniak@uni-bielefeld.de

Library, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld

Chris Erdmann

christopher.erdmann@scilifelab.uu.se

SciLifeLab

Kathleen Gregory

k.m.gregory@cwts.leidenuniv.nl

Leiden University

Nick Juty

nick.juty@manchester.ac.uk

The University of Manchester

Allyson Lister

allyson.lister@oerc.ox.ac.uk

Oxford e-Research Centre, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford

Ying-Hsang Liu

ying-hsang.liu@hsw.tu-chemnitz.de

Chemnitz University of Technology

Samantha Pearman-Kanza

s.pearman-kanza@soton.ac.uk

University of Southampton