{"id":4517,"date":"2025-11-12T09:25:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T09:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/?p=4517"},"modified":"2025-11-13T12:40:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T12:40:00","slug":"sunscholardata-is-a-proud-member-of-the-world-data-system-wds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/2025\/11\/12\/sunscholardata-is-a-proud-member-of-the-world-data-system-wds\/","title":{"rendered":"The University\u2019s data repository, SUNScholarData, is a proud member of the World Data System"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4533\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/files\/2025\/11\/WDS_logo-580x326.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/files\/2025\/11\/WDS_logo-580x326.png 580w, http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/files\/2025\/11\/WDS_logo-768x432.png 768w, http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/files\/2025\/11\/WDS_logo-676x380.png 676w, http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/files\/2025\/11\/WDS_logo.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">\n<p>The Stellenbosch University Library and Information Service is proud to announce its membership in the World Data System (WDS), a global network that promotes trusted data services and open science. WDS membership supports the long-term preservation, accessibility, and interoperability of research data worldwide.\u00a0This membership confirms SU\u2019s commitment to the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) and positions SUNScholarData as part of an international effort to advance data sharing and collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>Joining WDS brings significant benefits for SUNScholarData and Stellenbosch University. It\u00a0heightens the repository\u2019s profile, giving worldwide visibility through the International Science Council, international funders, and the global data community. Membership also\u00a0demonstrates our commitment to open science, promoting SUNScholarData as a trustworthy scientific data service aligned with WDS Data Sharing Principles. Finally, it\u00a0enhances our repository&#8217;s performance and agility\u00a0by improving data discovery and supporting international data exchange, thus ensuring our researchers\u2019 work is more accessible, impactful, and globally connected.<\/p>\n<p>SUNScholarData is also among a select group of CoreTrustSeal-certified data repositories in South Africa. These recognitions assure SU researchers that the data sets they deposit are curated and preserved according to internationally recognised standards of quality and trustworthiness.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em>Author: Kirchner van Deventer<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stellenbosch University Library and Information Service is proud to announce its membership in the World Data System (WDS), a global network that promotes trusted data services and open science. WDS membership supports the long-term preservation, accessibility, and interoperability of research data worldwide.\u00a0This membership confirms SU\u2019s commitment to the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9tu3H-1aR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4517"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4589,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4517\/revisions\/4589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}