Session Chair: R. Vogl
Research Data Infrastructures – A Perspective for the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia
(Anja Lopez)
With the digital transformation progressing fast, scientific research is massively affected by the ever-increasing amount of digitally generated research data. New ways have to be established to properly manage this digital research data to ensure that the standards of good scientific practice, first of all the reproducibility of scientific results, can be fulfilled. Sustainable management of digital research data requires standards for metadata annotation and a futureproof infrastructure for handling and storing these data. In this paper, we describe the current state of affairs in Germany with respect to research data management (RDM) and the establishment of a national research data infrastructure. The special focus is on the currently ongoing activities in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia to start implementing research data infrastructures for universities through several cooperative multi-university projects, tailored to the specific needs and approaches of the participating universities. View Paper
The National Repository of Theses: A Short Polish Case Study
(Małgorzata Stefańczuk)
The aim this study is to outline the main assumptions and challenges that occurred while introducing the national repository of theses in Poland. More specifically, we discuss the legal basis and other conditions of the repository, its architecture, implemented business processes, and some the most interesting technical details and performance statistics. Particularly, we show that a simple datastore based only on a filesystem could be more efficient and cheaper than a NoSQL database, which is quite fashionable nowadays. Presented comments and remarks regarding development and deployment of the information system and selected statistics of the working software may help other parties to improve their repositories or take a decision regarding new solutions. View Paper
simpleArchive – Making an Archive Accessible to the User
(Marius Politze)
At RWTH Aachen University a project aims at improving the support and technical infrastructure for Research Data Management (RDM). In this project the need was identified to provide researchers with a tool to simply upload and save files in a long term archive. Our solution allows the researchers to use a web interface to deliver their data as a single file into a tape archive. All uploaded artifacts are identified using a PID. View Paper