Navigating Data Curation Activities in CroRIS

Croatian Research Information System (CroRIS) is the central Croatian digital infrastructure which aims to collect, curate, and provide structure and access to metadata on research activities. CroRIS superadministrators (at Ruđer Bošković Institute and University of Zagreb University Computing Centre - Srce) manage the entire system, work on the system's construction and further development, have the ability to edit all the entries, add new and manage existing authority files and are directly responsible for editing and verifying the accuracy of the orphaned entries. Considering a large amount of metadata is linked to some Croatian research and higher education institution, access to data management was granted to institutional administrators. Institutional module editors are able to administer those CroRIS entries which pertain to their institution. This division of work enables prompt data verification and accelerates the process. CroRIS thus created a community of data curators who collaborate together to serve a common goal and as such serves as an excellent example of a successful data curation partnership.