Project: NIH GREI - Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative: Year 5

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Note

• For GREI Year 4, please see issue Project: NIH GREI - Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative: Year 4 #370
• GREI Year 5 is the continuation of the NIH GREI project and focuses on completing the work described in: NIH GREI Coopetition Plan Year 5 - FINAL.

Vision

The long-term vision for GREI is to develop collaborative approaches for data management and sharing through inclusion of the generalist repositories in the NIH data ecosystem. GREI also aims to better enable search and discovery of NIH-funded data in the generalist repositories.

Mission

GREI’s mission is twofold. The primary mission is to establish a common set of cohesive and consistent capabilities, services, metrics, and social infrastructure across various generalist repositories. Secondarily, GREI will raise general awareness and help researchers to adopt FAIR principles to better share and reuse data.

See: NIH GREI Announcement

GREI Repositories and Participants

1. Dryad
2. Zenodo
3. Dataverse Project (and Harvard Dataverse)
4. Mendeley Data
5. DataCite
6. figshare
7. OSF
8. Vivli

Y5 Objectives

• GREI Y5-1: Desirable Characteristics #512
• GREI Y5-2: Consistent Metadata #513
• GREI Y5-3: Search and Browse #514
• GREI Y5-4: Analytics and Reporting #515
• GREI Y5-5: Use Cases #516
• GREI Y5-6: Connect Digital Objects #517
• GREI Y5-7: QA/QC #518
• GREI Y5-8: Training & Community Engagement #519

Y5 Task Groups

Active

• TG: QA/QC, Sensitive Data & Spam Task Group #384 (Sonia)
• TG: AI Metadata Curation Task Group #444 (@danielEbanks)
• TG: Data Packaging Task Group #399 (@cmbz)
• TG: GREI Planning and Execution Unit #332 (@dliburd and @sbarbosadataverse)
• TG: Cross-Repository Search Task Group #166 (@jggautier) (May be continuing into Year 5)
• TG: Metadata Task Group #400 (@jggautier)
• TG: GREI Metrics Dashboard Task Group (DataCite) #411 (@jggautier)
• TG: GREI Metadata Completeness Dashboard (DataCite) #419 (@jggautier)
• TG: Metadata Game Changers #420 (@jggautier)
• TG: Real World Case Studies Task Group #385 (@sbarbosadataverse)
• TG: Connecting Digital Objects #570 (@jggautier and @cmbz)

Grant Supplements

• GREI: AI Supplement #453 (@danielEbanks, @cmbz)

Timeline

• Start: March 2026
• End: February 2027

Year 4 Backlog

List of known potential Harvard Dataverse GREI issues to complete, time permitting

• Monitor: GREI Year 4 Backlog #398

Resources

GREI Program Resources

• NIH GREI Coopetition Plan Year 5 - FINAL