{"id":1240,"date":"2023-07-24T23:52:44","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T22:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.repopsi.f.bg.ac.rs\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2025-08-18T10:35:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T09:35:02","slug":"repopsi-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.repopsi.f.bg.ac.rs\/sr\/repopsi-project\/","title":{"rendered":"How did we get to REPOPSI 2.0? The project that improved the Repository in a nutshell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">REPOPSI is an open repository where you can find (and store your own) psychological instruments, such as tests, scales, and questionnaires.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lira.f.bg.ac.rs\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LIRA Lab<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0launched the Repository in March 2020. At that time, REPOPSI had 129 records \u2013 as of July 2023, there are 200. But the increase in the number of instruments is not our only achievement. Our efforts to promote REPOPSI to a wider audience led to more crowdsourced contributions. We have also improved the Repository&#8217;s adherence to the principles of Open Science, making it possible for REPOPSI to serve as a role model for the development of other smaller-scale open repositories of research data.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The most significant moment for REPOPSI was when we were awarded a \u20ac50,000 grant from the EOSC Future and Research Data Alliance (RDA). Those were the first funds we had received for the REPOPSI development.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Meet the project funders<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1234\" src=\"https:\/\/www.repopsi.f.bg.ac.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/eosc-rda-logos.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.repopsi.f.bg.ac.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/eosc-rda-logos.png 960w, https:\/\/www.repopsi.f.bg.ac.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/eosc-rda-logos-480x155.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 960px, 100vw\" \/> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In July 2022, we applied to one of the <\/span>Open Calls<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> funded by EOSC Future and managed by RDA \u2013 <\/span>RDA Open Call for cross disciplinary science adoption grants #1<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>.<\/strong> Go here to learn about all of the <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rd-alliance.org\/projects-eosc-future\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EOSC Future Open Call projects<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/eoscfuture.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>EOSC Future<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is an EU-funded Horizon 2020 project that is implementing the European Open Science Cloud (<\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/eosc.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EOSC<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">). The goal of EOSC is to give European researchers access to a wide web of FAIR data and related services.<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rd-alliance.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>RDA<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is an international member-based organization focused on the development of infrastructure and community activities that reduce barriers to data sharing and exchange, and the acceleration of data-driven innovation worldwide.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>REPOPSI project basics<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Project title<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: TRUST-ification and FAIR-ification of an open repository for research instruments in psychology: REPOPSI&#8217;s adoption of RDA outputs<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Grant amount<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: 50,000 EUR<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Duration<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: October 2022\u2013July 2023 (nine months)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Awarded organization<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.f.bg.ac.rs\/en2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Belgrade &#8211; Faculty of Philosophy<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Project team<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Aleksandra Lazi\u0107 (project lead), Ljiljana Lazarevi\u0107, Danka Puri\u0107, Iris \u017de\u017eelj, and Obrad Vu\u010dkovac. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.repopsi.f.bg.ac.rs\/en\/our-team\/\"><strong>Visit this page to learn more about the team!<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Project page<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rd-alliance.org\/eosc-future-grant-repopsi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The project&#8217;s activities and outputs are featured on the RDA website.<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Open materials<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/zenodo.org\/communities\/repopsi-rda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The project\u2019s open materials are on Zenodo.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The project consists of three work packages (WPs), which you can read more about below.<\/span> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1238\" src=\"https:\/\/www.repopsi.f.bg.ac.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/wp.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.repopsi.f.bg.ac.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/wp.png 960w, https:\/\/www.repopsi.f.bg.ac.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/wp-480x130.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 960px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>WP1: Improving the TRUST-worthiness and FAIR-ness of the Repository<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first WP aimed to improve the TRUST-worthiness and FAIR-ness of REPOPSI, including its data (i.e. psychological instruments) and metadata (i.e. data describing the data in the Repository). <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41597-020-0486-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TRUST-worthiness<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of a Repository is reflected in its adherence to the principles of Transparency, Responsibility, User focus, Sustainability, and Technology.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/sdata.2016.18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FAIR-ness<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of (meta)data is reflected in their adherence to the principles of Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reuse.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To get a better idea on where to concentrate our efforts and to evaluate the progress we made, we conducted a self-assessment test at the start and at the end of the project, relying on the <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15497\/rda00050\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FAIR Data Maturity Model<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5281\/zenodo.7051011\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CoreTrustSeal Requirements 2023-2025<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The graphs below show how REPOPSI\u2019s FAIR-ness improved, compared to the start of the project.<\/span> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.repopsi.f.bg.ac.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/improvement-chart-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2371\" height=\"1415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.repopsi.f.bg.ac.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/improvement-chart-1.png 2371w, https:\/\/www.repopsi.f.bg.ac.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/improvement-chart-1-1280x764.png 1280w, https:\/\/www.repopsi.f.bg.ac.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/improvement-chart-1-980x585.png 980w, https:\/\/www.repopsi.f.bg.ac.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/improvement-chart-1-480x286.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 2371px, 100vw\" \/> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As part of WP1, we:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.repopsi.f.bg.ac.rs\/en\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Created a new website<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to ensure that all important information is more transparently declared and more easily accessed by the users<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.repopsi.f.bg.ac.rs\/en\/how-to-contribute-to-repopsi\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Made the Repository contribution form available as an online survey<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> so that anyone who wishes to make their original instruments and instrument translations openly available in REPOPSI can do so more efficiently<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.repopsi.f.bg.ac.rs\/en\/how-to-search-repopsi\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Developed an interactive, open-source web app<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to make browsing and accessing REPOPSI records easier and quicker<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5281\/zenodo.8178798\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Put REPOPSI metadata values into XML documents following the DataCite Metadata Schema and implemented a FAIR-compliant controlled vocabulary<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to enrich metadata and make them machine-understandable (i.e. able to be processed by machines, without human intervention).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>WP2: Disseminating the activities of the project<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The second WP was focused on communicating the results of the project, advertising REPOPSI to a wider user base, and promoting further uptake of RDA outputs.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As part of WP2, we:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Attended the <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.rd-alliance.org\/plenaries\/rda-20th-plenary-meeting-gothenburg-hybrid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RDA\u2019s 20th Plenary<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Gothenburg, Sweden, and participated in the RDA\/EOSC Future Satellite Event \u201c<\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.rd-alliance.org\/save-date-global-research-commons-europe-and-beyond\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Building blocks of Global Research Commons: Europe and beyond<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d (the photo below shows Aleksandra, in the middle, at the \u201cThe glue to a successful Commons: Interoperability\u201d session)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1236\" src=\"https:\/\/www.repopsi.f.bg.ac.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/rda.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2047\" height=\"1257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.repopsi.f.bg.ac.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/rda.jpg 2047w, https:\/\/www.repopsi.f.bg.ac.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/rda-1280x786.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.repopsi.f.bg.ac.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/rda-980x602.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.repopsi.f.bg.ac.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/rda-480x295.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 2047px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oscs.open.ac.rs\/index.php\/kategorije\/10-kategorije\/321-radionica-repopsi2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Organized an online workshop<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in cooperation with the Open Science Community Serbia to share lessons learned and demonstrate new REPOPSI technologies<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Onboarded REPOPSI as a new service to the EOSC Portal<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fairsharing.org\/4918\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Added REPOPSI as a new database entry to the FAIRsharing.org Registry<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We will continue sharing <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.repopsi.f.bg.ac.rs\/en\/blog\/\">blog posts and news<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the website. We will also keep promoting the project outputs via LIRA Lab\u2019s social media accounts on <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LiraLab.Bgd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LiraLab_Bgd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/lira-lab-bgd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, so make sure to be on the lookout for the <strong>#REPOPSI<\/strong> hashtag.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>WP3: Improving the completeness of the data in the Repository<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The third WP was designed with the goal to increase the number of REPOPSI records.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First, we recruited and trained three psychology master&#8217;s students from the University of Belgrade &#8211; Faculty of Philosophy to assist us with WP3 activities: <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/osf.io\/w63ak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aleksandar S. Milovanovi\u0107<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/osf.io\/cd3qp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Milica Damnjanovi\u0107<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/osf.io\/kzpu6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Milica Miti\u0107<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1237\" src=\"https:\/\/www.repopsi.f.bg.ac.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/student-assistants.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.repopsi.f.bg.ac.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/student-assistants.png 960w, https:\/\/www.repopsi.f.bg.ac.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/student-assistants-480x270.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 960px, 100vw\" \/> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Next, student assistants searched the <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/eteze.bg.ac.rs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">E-theses repository<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and documented the relevant doctoral theses and psychological instruments available in them. After the senior project members determined which instruments satisfied the copyright and quality requirements to be opened in REPOPSI, student assistants started filling in the online REPOPSI contribution forms and contacting corresponding authors where more information was needed.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This way, we recorded <\/span><b>120 <\/b>new original instruments and instrument translations<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; most of them can be made fully open in REPOPSI, while the rest will be available upon request or at an external website. A total of 15 records were added to REPOPSI in July 2023. We plan to add more records by the end of the year, so make sure to check back for updates!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn more about our EOSC Future\/RDA funded project that helped improve REPOPSI\u2019s FAIR-ness and TRUST-worthiness and increase the number of psychological instruments it holds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">REPOPSI is an open repository where you can find (and store your own) psychological instruments, such as tests, scales, and questionnaires.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Laboratory for Research of Individual Differences (<\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lira.f.bg.ac.rs\/en\/\">LIRA<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) launched the Repository in March 2020. At that time, REPOPSI had 129 records \u2013 as of July 2023, there are 200. But the increase in the number of instruments is not our only achievement. Our efforts to promote REPOPSI to a wider audience led to more crowdsourced contributions. We have also improved the Repository's adherence to the principles of Open Science, making it possible for REPOPSI to serve as a role model for the development of other smaller-scale open repositories of research data.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The most significant moment for REPOPSI was when we were awarded a \u20ac50,000 grant from the EOSC Future and Research Data Alliance (RDA). Those were the first funds we had received for the REPOPSI development.<\/span>\r\n<h2>Meet the project funders<\/h2>\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1234\" src=\"https:\/\/www.repopsi.f.bg.ac.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/eosc-rda-logos.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"310\" \/>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In July 2022, we applied to one of the <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/eoscfuture-grants.eu\/provider\/research-data-alliance\">Open Calls<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> funded by EOSC Future and managed by RDA \u2013 <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/eoscfuture-grants.eu\/provider\/research-data-alliance\/rda-open-call-cross-disciplinary-science-adoption-grants\">RDA Open Call for cross disciplinary science adoption grants #1<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>.<\/strong> Go here to learn about all of the <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rd-alliance.org\/projects-eosc-future\/\">EOSC Future Open Call projects<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/eoscfuture.eu\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>EOSC Future<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is an EU-funded Horizon 2020 project that is implementing the European Open Science Cloud (<\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/eosc.eu\/\">EOSC<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">). The goal of EOSC is to give European researchers access to a wide web of FAIR data and related services.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rd-alliance.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>RDA<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is an international member-based organization focused on the development of infrastructure and community activities that reduce barriers to data sharing and exchange, and the acceleration of data-driven innovation worldwide.<\/span>\r\n<h2>REPOPSI project basics<\/h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Project title<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: TRUST-ification and FAIR-ification of an open repository for research instruments in psychology: REPOPSI's adoption of RDA outputs<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Grant amount<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: 50,000 EUR<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Duration<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: October 2022\u2013July 2023 (nine months)<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Awarded organization<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.f.bg.ac.rs\/en2\">University of Belgrade - Faculty of Philosophy<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Project team<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Aleksandra Lazi\u0107 (project lead), Ljiljana Lazarevi\u0107, Danka Puri\u0107, Iris \u017de\u017eelj, and Obrad Vu\u010dkovac. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.repopsi.f.bg.ac.rs\/en\/our-team\/\"><strong>Visit this page to learn more about the team!<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Project page<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rd-alliance.org\/eosc-future-grant-repopsi\/\"><strong>The project's activities and outputs are featured on the RDA website.<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Open materials<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/zenodo.org\/communities\/repopsi-rda\">The project\u2019s open materials are on Zenodo.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The project consists of three work packages (WPs), which you can read more about below.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1238\" src=\"https:\/\/www.repopsi.f.bg.ac.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/wp.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"260\" \/>\r\n<h2>WP1: Improving the TRUST-worthiness and FAIR-ness of the Repository<\/h2>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first WP aimed to improve the TRUST-worthiness and FAIR-ness of REPOPSI, including its data (i.e. psychological instruments) and metadata (i.e. data describing the data in the Repository).\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41597-020-0486-7\">TRUST-worthiness<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of a Repository is reflected in its adherence to the principles of Transparency, Responsibility, User focus, Sustainability, and Technology.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/sdata.2016.18\">FAIR-ness<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of (meta)data is reflected in their adherence to the principles of Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reuse.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To get a better idea on where to concentrate our efforts and to evaluate the progress we made, we conducted a self-assessment test at the start and at the end of the project, relying on the <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15497\/rda00050\">FAIR Data Maturity Model<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5281\/zenodo.7051011\">CoreTrustSeal Requirements 2023-2025<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The graphs below show how REPOPSI\u2019s FAIR-ness improved, compared to the start of the project.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.repopsi.f.bg.ac.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/improvement-chart-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2371\" height=\"1415\" \/>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As part of WP1, we:<\/span>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.repopsi.f.bg.ac.rs\/en\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Created a new website<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to ensure that all important information is more transparently declared and more easily accessed by the users<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.repopsi.f.bg.ac.rs\/en\/how-to-contribute-to-repopsi\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Made the Repository contribution form available as an online survey<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> so that anyone who wishes to make their original instruments and instrument translations openly available in REPOPSI can do so more efficiently<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.repopsi.f.bg.ac.rs\/en\/how-to-search-repopsi\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Developed an interactive, open-source web app<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to make browsing and accessing REPOPSI records easier and quicker<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5281\/zenodo.8178798\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Put REPOPSI metadata values into XML documents following the DataCite Metadata Schema and implemented a FAIR-compliant controlled vocabulary<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to enrich metadata and make them machine-understandable (i.e. able to be processed by machines, without human intervention).<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h2>WP2: Disseminating the activities of the project<\/h2>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The second WP was focused on communicating the results of the project, advertising REPOPSI to a wider user base, and promoting further uptake of RDA outputs.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As part of WP2, we:<\/span>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Attended the <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.rd-alliance.org\/plenaries\/rda-20th-plenary-meeting-gothenburg-hybrid\">RDA\u2019s 20th Plenary<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Gothenburg, Sweden, and participated in the RDA\/EOSC Future Satellite Event \u201c<\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.rd-alliance.org\/save-date-global-research-commons-europe-and-beyond\">Building blocks of Global Research Commons: Europe and beyond<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d (the photo below shows Aleksandra, in the middle, at the \u201cThe glue to a successful Commons: Interoperability\u201d session)<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1236\" src=\"https:\/\/www.repopsi.f.bg.ac.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/rda.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2047\" height=\"1257\" \/>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oscs.open.ac.rs\/index.php\/kategorije\/10-kategorije\/321-radionica-repopsi2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Organized an online workshop<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in cooperation with the Open Science Community Serbia to share lessons learned and demonstrate new REPOPSI technologies<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marketplace.eosc-portal.eu\/services\/eosc.ubfzf.repopsi\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Onboarded REPOPSI as a new service to the EOSC Portal<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fairsharing.org\/4918\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Added REPOPSI as a new database entry to the FAIRsharing.org Registry<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We will continue sharing <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.repopsi.f.bg.ac.rs\/en\/blog\/\">blog posts and news<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the website. We will also keep promoting the project outputs via LIRA\u2019s social media accounts on <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LiraLab.Bgd\/\">Facebook<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LiraLab_Bgd\">Twitter<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/lira-lab-bgd\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, so make sure to be on the lookout for the <strong>#REPOPSI<\/strong> hashtag.<\/span>\r\n<h2>WP3: Improving the completeness of the data in the Repository<\/h2>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The third WP was designed with the goal to increase the number of REPOPSI records.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First, we recruited and trained three psychology master's students from the University of Belgrade - Faculty of Philosophy to assist us with WP3 activities: <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/osf.io\/w63ak\/\">Aleksandar S. Milovanovi\u0107<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/osf.io\/cd3qp\/\">Milica Damnjanovi\u0107<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/osf.io\/kzpu6\/\">Milica Miti\u0107<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1237\" src=\"https:\/\/www.repopsi.f.bg.ac.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/student-assistants.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" \/>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Next, student assistants searched the <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/eteze.bg.ac.rs\/\">E-theses repository<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and documented the relevant doctoral theses and psychological instruments available in them. After the senior project members determined which instruments satisfied the copyright and quality requirements to be opened in REPOPSI, student assistants started filling in the online REPOPSI contribution forms and contacting corresponding authors where more information was needed.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This way, we recorded <\/span><b>120 <\/b>new original instruments and instrument translations<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; most of them can be made fully open in REPOPSI, while the rest will be available upon request or at an external website. A total of 15 records were added to REPOPSI in July 2023. 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