The Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR) is a bilingual national platform for publishing and preserving research data. In FRDR, a Collection is a way to organize related datasets under a shared identity or research context. Collections provide a framework to showcase groups of datasets produced by a lab, research project, institution, or collaboration, helping researchers manage multiple outputs and increase their visibility. Behind the scenes, FRDR distinguishes between two types of storage groups that underpin how Collections work. Default Storage Groups are available to all registered users and support individual dataset submissions that are fully searchable, but not branded or grouped into a Collection. Special Storage Groups are created by request and act as branded, curated collections for entities such as labs, large-scale research projects, multi-institutional collaborations, or departments that want to group datasets from different laboratories. This Repository Showdown presentation will demonstrate FRDR's new collection-specific metrics, which give Collection owners a self-service view of engagement with their datasets (for example, views, downloads, and basic trends), and will outline future directions for Collections, including richer dashboards, stronger collection identity, and closer connections with governance and storage models.
Neha Milan (Mon,) studied this question.