Who Owns Research Data ?

News from Jul 15, 2024

The ownership of research data is a complex topic involving researchers, institutions, and funding bodies. Typically, the ownership rights depend on institutional policies, agreements with funding agencies, and the legal frameworks governing intellectual property. Ensuring clarity on data ownership is crucial for managing access, sharing, and ethical use of research data. For a discussion see here (English) and here (German).

Data Management Plan step by step

May 09, 2023 | 09:00 s.t. - 11:00

A Data Management Plan (DMP) systematically describes how research data created or used in projects is handled. It documents, among other things, the scope, type, storage, indexing, creation and processing of the data.

More information here.

DFG supports plans for legislation on research data

News from May 03, 2023

Latest statement underlines necessity from the perspective of science and the humanities / Participation in the federal government consultation process.

Read more here.

NFDI4Earth and FU-Berlin participation

News from Apr 06, 2022

Scientists at the Department of Earth Sciences and the University Library of the Freie University are now working together in NFDI4Earth more here

r3data

News from May 27, 2021

TRR170-DB is now registered with re3data, a global registry of research data repositories funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). It indexes and provides information about more than 2450 research data repositories from different academic disciplines that meet standards for data sharing and access.

Copdess - Coalition for Publishing Data in the Earth and Space Sciences

News from Jul 06, 2020

We signed on Copdess to support the FAIR Data Project. More information here.

DFG Research Data Guidelines

News from Jul 06, 2020

DFG updated their Research Data Guidelines for Safeguarding Good Research Practice. More information here.