GREI Y5: Project planning

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Overview

• This issue enumerates the Harvard-specific tasks needed to plan and implement all GREI Year 5 objectives and tasks.
• It functions as a punch list to remind us what we need to do and what planning work we've accomplished to-date
• Note
  • A check mark indicates that planning (and scoping) is complete and the task can be scheduled.
  • Needs Scoping indicates that an issue has been created, but that the work needs to be scoped.

GREI Y5 Approved Plan

Objectives

GREI 1: #512

GREI 1 Scope

• 1.1 Task: Investigate creating an interactive repository selection tool
• 1.2 Task: Engage with FAIRsharing on a discussion of potential collaboration

Details

Planning Tasks

• Plan: GREI 1.2.1: Convene a conversation with FAIRsharing and identify up to three potential future collaborative tasks #540 (GREI Deliverable)

GREI 2: #513

GREI 2 Scope

2.1 Task: GREI repositories strive to implement components of GREI Metadata Recommendation (version 2)

• 2.2 Task: Continue to develop and improve the All-GREI Metadata Completeness Dashboard
• 2.3 Task: Continue to track emerging AI integrations at GREI repositories and related community initiatives to inform future GREI collaborations and recommendations
• 2.4 Task: Engage and align with DataCite regarding metadata enrichment initiative with COMET, including consideration of integration into DataCite systems (API, interfaces, provenance) and potential for repositories to utilize these enrichments to update their metadata records

Details

Planning Tasks

• Review all deliverables in GREI Y5-2: Consistent Metadata #513 to identify Harvard-specific work to be planned
• Plan: GREI 2.1.1: Dataverse Y5 metadata implementation plan #546 (GREI Deliverable)

Must Have

• Feature Request: Align the DataCite/Datacite and OpenAIRE/oai_datacite exports that ship with Dataverse dataverse#12281 (also related to GREI 4, see below)
• 2.1 Task: GREI repositories strive to implement components of [GREI Metadata Recommendation (version 2)](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16953588)
  • GREI 2.1.2: Dataverse Y5 monitor metadata sync with DataCite dataverse.harvard.edu#409
  • Review date metadata fields in Harvard Dataverse and alignment with related recommendations in GREI Metadata Recommendations V2 #470
  • Continue evaluation of account page and deposit form redesigns for increasing ORCIDs and other ORCID-related recommendations in GREI Metadata Recommendations V2 #473
  • Review use of Related Publication Relation Type field and alignment with related recommendations in GREI Metadata Recommendations V2 #472
  • Review controlled vocabulary recommendations in GREI Metadata Recommendations V2 to determine next steps #474
• Plan GREI 2.3.1: TG: AI Metadata Curation Task Group #444 (GREI Deliverable)
• Plan: GREI 2.3.2: Convene a conversation with AI-focused programs and community initiatives #548 (GREI Deliverable)
• Decide which DDI-CDI work to include in Y5 (Work is completed. No further work in Year 5)
  • Investigate DDI-CDI needs of Dataverse Community #285
  • As a user I would like to be able to export my dataset metadata via DDI-CDI #284
  • Define a use-case for DDI-CDI support in dataverse #286
• GREI 2: Identify and plan frontend work to support GREI metadata improvements #566 (Needs scoping)

Should Have

• GREI 2: HDV Task - Improve Dataverse Biomedical Metadata Support #174
  • Testing of HEAL metadata block and deposit tool on demo.dataverse.org dataverse.harvard.edu#368
  • Deploy HEAL metadata block and deposit tool to production dataverse.harvard.edu#369
  • Task: Evaluate and implement biomedical metadata blocks from DANS on HDV #232
  • Investigate Requirements for Dataverse CEDAR Support #372
  • Proposal: Investigate Support for Dataverse File- and Variable-Level Metadata #112 (Needs scoping)

Could Have

• GREI HDV Task: Determine whether/how Dataverse can support hierarchical vocabularies #236
• CEDAR: Develop plan for evaluating MVP #375

GREI 3: #514

GREI 3 Scope

• 3.1 Task: Individual repository implementation of filtered search by funder and by research institution affiliation using ROR
• 3.2 Task: Individual repository implementation of requirements to facilitate discovery in NLM Dataset Catalog
• HDV Task: Harvard Dataverse harvesting

Details

Planning Tasks

• Plan: GREI 3Y5: Harvard Dataverse search and browse plan #556
  • Understand and plan work needed to complete: 3.1.1 Deliverable: Individual repositories implement filtered search by funder and research institution affiliation using ROR. Including:
    • Epic: GREI 3.1: Individual repository implementation for helping users find datasets by funder and by research affiliation using ROR #406
• Plan: GREI 3Y5: Harvard Dataverse harvesting plan #551
• Identify and plan frontend work for GREI 3

GREI 4: #515

GREI 4 Scope

• 4.1 Task: Individual repositories implement Make Data Count-compliant usage tracking and send to DataCite to enable usage statistics to be shared and reported to the wider community via DataCite
• 4.2 Task: Continue to develop and improve the All-GREI Metrics Dashboard, which will include citations, views, and download metrics for NIH-funded works published in GREI repositories
• 4.3 Task: Optimize repositories for FAIR repository and data assessment by conducting a feasibility assessment of FAIR Signposting Level 2 with optional implementation as feasible in Year 5

Details

Planning Tasks

Identify and plan MDC work to be completed, including:

• Show MDC metrics in SPA Dataset page dataverse-frontend#779
• Implement DataCite usage tracker widget in the SPA UI #242
• Identify and plan frontend work to support GREI 4
• Identify and plan additional Harvard Dataverse analytics work
• Related: See Feature Request: Align the DataCite/Datacite and OpenAIRE/oai_datacite exports that ship with Dataverse dataverse#12281 (for evaluation purposes)

GREI 5: #516

GREI 5 Scope

• 5.1 Task: Collect examples of researchers sharing or reusing data in a Generalist Repository that showcase biomedical researcher user journeys across a range of research areas, methods, or translational stages

Details

Planning Tasks

Plan the following use cases:

• NIH data reuse
• Data journey
• DP Wizard Use Case (e.g., "Using Differential Privacy to Data About Sensitive Data")
• Large Data Support (new use case?)
• Indigenous data (new use case?)
• AI and Dataverse (e.g., Ask the Data, FAIRSCAPE, AI-in-a-Box)

GREI 6: #517

GREI 6 Scope

• 6.1 Task: Evaluate emerging methods to track links between publications and datasets for biomedical use cases and NIH researchers

Details

Planning Tasks

Scope work needed for:

• GREI 6: Identify and document current methods to track links between publications and datasets in Harvard Dataverse #544
• GREI 6: Assess opportunities to enhance dataset-publication linking and measuring dataset impact in Harvard Dataverse #545
• POSSIBLE: Demo and write-up of the Review feature and potential for biomedical data resources
• Identify and plan frontend work to support GREI 6
• Identify, select, and plan to implement specific items in the dataverse backlog that address GREI 6 objectives

GREI 7: #518

GREI 7 Scope

• 7.1 Task: Repositories complete self-assessment using QA/QC assessment tool developed in Year 4 and share findings to inform potential future work

Details

Planning Tasks

• Identify potential work related to dataset QA/QC
  • Production Workflow Improvements: Running list of user pain points that we aim to resolve over time #423
  • GREI 7: HDV Task - QA/QC for Biomedical Data and Data Collections #149 (related to the AI Supplement: GREI: AI Supplement #453)
• Identify and plan frontend work to support GREI 7

GREI 8: #519

GREI 8 Scope

• 8.1 Task: Establish a GREI Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) composed of key stakeholders to ensure GREI tasks and objectives are aligned with the broader community's needs
• 8.2 Task: Engage directly with diverse groups of biomedical researchers at targeted domain-specific conferences and events
• 8.3 Task: Organize and host a researcher-focused virtual workshop/symposium to: 1) highlight GREI accomplishments and future work, 2) gather community input, 3) facilitate discussion of GREI repositories in the NIH data repository landscape, and future collaboration
• 8.4 Task: Collaborate with research data landscape partners to contribute to resources and/or training on data sharing and reuse (e.g., NIH ICs and programs, domain-specific repositories including DRKB program, CTSAs)

Details

Planning Tasks

• TBD

Related

• Also view GREI issues needed scoping at the GREI Year 5 Planning Dashboard

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Status: April 2026

• Pending