In January 2014, the three-year collaborative project e-Infrastructures Austria was initiated in Austria, a project which was funded by the Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy for the coordinated establishment and further development of repository infrastructures for research and teaching as well as to provide an efficient and sustainable research data management system at all 20 participating universities and the other five extra-university institutions involved. The project is based on a broad concept of research data and focuses on the opportunities and challenges arising from new applications and innovative forms of the re-use of data. In this context, the purpose of such a project is not only to provide the technical infrastructure needed, but also to create the appropriate organizational and legal framework. To ensure that data remains secure and accessible over the long term, as well as understandable and re-usable, it is a basic requirement of the system development team to promote the interaction of different groups of people, strategies and techniques. Therefore in the project, there are different important stakeholders: Scientific libraries, IT service facilities, research funders, researchers and publishers. It is necessary to clearly define areas of responsibility with associated roles and responsibilities and to set these roles in the related institutions. By introducing data management plans, policies and technical systems with clear terms of use and regulated accessibility, institutions can significantly benefit the creation of digital content in the long term, making such data accessible and re-usable while maintaining legal security for all parties involved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]