This data supplements the article “FAIREST: A Framework for Assessing Research Repositories”. In the article, we introduce the FAIREST principles, an extension of the well-known FAIR principles. Along these principles, we provide comprehensive metrics for assessing and selecting solutions for building digital repositories for research artefacts. The metrics are based on two pillars:

1. an analysis of established features and functionalities, drawn from existing solutions,
2. a literature review on general requirements for digital repositories for research artefacts and related systems.



We further describe an assessment of 11 widespread solutions, with the goal to provide an overview of the current landscape of research data repository solutions, identifying gaps and research challenges to be addressed. The solutions are:

• – ResearchGate
• – Academia.edu
• – Zenodo
• – arXiv
• – Bibsonomy
• – Figshare
• – CKAN
• – DSpace
• – Invenio
• – Dataverse
• – EPrints



Overview of the data

01 FAIREST Assessment Metrics and Solutions (All-in-one).xlsx

This Excel file includes both the assessment metrics and the results for the 11 solutions




02 FAIREST Assessment Metrics.csv

The assessment metrics as CSV




XX FAIREST Assessment XXX.csv

Assessment result for the respective solution




14 FAIREST Assessment Template.xlsx

A template to apply the metrics to an individual solution

Note: Fill in your assessment in column F and get the result at the bottom of the sheet