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Notes for Reviewers¶
How is the technical review carried out and what should be considered?¶
The technical review of a data submission should be carried out by a subject matter expert. The data and metadata should be evaluated in terms of their suitability for long-term archiving and, if applicable, publication. What is important here is primarily the completeness and correctness of the data and metadata as well as their documentation. It should be taken into account that the data should still be understandable after more than ten years.
In particular, when publishing the data is intended, the perspective of a potential reuser should also be considered: Good documentation of the data's creation, processing, and selection processes, as well as their use, enables understanding of the data and allows for potential reuse. More details and considerations for preparing a dataset for archiving or publication are explained in the Notes for Submitters.
In the event of a rejection of the submission, the reasons and suggestions for improvement for the submitter should be described in the designated comment field.
The technical review can be carried out by any scientist who can evaluate the dataset and its documentation in terms of content. This can be, for example, project leaders, project staff, or other scientists from their own working group, or the supervisor of an academic qualification work for data submissions from students.
Carrying out the review¶
After logging in to the OPARA website, clicking on the user profile button in the top right corner opens the user menu. Select the 'My Tasks' entry here. On the following page, you will find the workflow task with the title specified in the email. Click the 'View' button to display the information about the submission to be reviewed.
Here, all descriptive information (metadata) and uploaded files are displayed. The files can be downloaded for control if necessary.
Subsequently, you can return to the 'My Tasks' overview page via the 'Back' button at the end of the page. Here, you can accept the submission via the 'Approve' button if it meets the requirements for correctness, completeness, and documentation described in this section. The archiving and possible publication (if no embargo was specified) of the dataset will take place immediately after.
If the submission does not meet the described requirements, you can reject it via the 'Reject' button. A dialog will open to explain the reasons for the rejection to the submitter and provide hints on how the submission can be improved. Confirm the rejection with the 'Reject item' button. The submitter will then receive your comments by email and can revise and resubmit the submission.
You have received an email to carry out a review, but do not see a task on the website¶
It is likely that your primary email address was not specified for the technical review, with which you are automatically registered with OPARA by your institution's identity management system. In this case, please contact the OPARA support to have the correct assignment made.
You have mistakenly received an email to carry out a technical review¶
In this case, or if you do not feel responsible for carrying out a review for other reasons, we ask you to decline the review on the OPARA website. To do this, please proceed as follows:
After logging in to the OPARA website, clicking on the user profile button in the top right corner opens the user menu. Select the 'My Tasks' entry here. On the following page, you will find the workflow task with the title specified in the email. Click the 'Decline' button to decline the task. The OPARA team will then contact the submitter to appoint another person to carry out the technical review.