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Academic libraries operate in the digital world in a multitude of globally acting information infrastructures. The new ways of use and demands associated with digitization entail a comprehensive development of their tasks and services. As infrastructure and innovation partners, libraries play an important role in the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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What are the motivations and sought gratifications leading information science researchers to share and to reuse research data? Research data are both datasets and supplementary materials such as interview guides or questionnaires. The theoretical backgrounds of this study are the Lasswell Formula of Communication, the Uses and Gratifications Theory, and the Self-determination Theory, which formed the basis for the construction of an interview guide and the interpretation of the interview transcripts. We performed 11 in-depth interviews with German information scientists, all with experiences with data. The results demonstrate that research data sharing is not a rare practice among information scientists. Due to problems with different information horizons of the sharing and the reusing researchers, the reusing of data sets is much rarer than the reuse of supplementary materials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As the primary method of communicating research results, journals garner an enormous impact on community behavior. Publishing the underlying research data alongside journal articles is widely considered good scientific practice. Ideally, journals and their publishers place these recommendations or requirements in their author guidelines and data policies. Several efforts are working to improve the infrastructure, processes, and uptake of research data sharing, including the NFDI4Chem consortium, working groups within the RDA, and IUPAC, including the WorldFAIR Chemistry project. In this article, we present the results of a large-scale analysis of author guidelines from several publishers and journals active in chemistry research, showing how well the publishing landscape supports different criteria and where there is room for improvement. While the requirement for deposition of X-ray diffraction data is commonplace, guidelines rarely mention machine-readable chemical structures and metadata/minimum information standards. Further evaluation criteria included recommendations on persistent identifiers, data availability statements, data deposition into repositories as well as of open analytical data formats. Our survey shows that publishers and journals are starting to include aspects of research data in their guidelines. We as authors should accept and embrace the guidelines with increasing requirements for data availability, data interoperability, and re-usability to improve chemistry research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

However, overcoming the differences between AFO and other BFO based ontologies, especially OBO ontologies, will be a major challenge that would best be addressed by a closer collaboration between the OBO community and Allotrope. What distinguishes domain ontologies from application ontologies is the fact that the latter can be understood as concrete customized implementations of the former in a certain software application context ( I e.g. i the ontology of PubChem) [[15]]. General scientific ontologies Of the 10 general scientific ontologies identified, three, namely BFO, SIO, and OntoCAPE, are upper level ontologies. Chemistry specific application ontologies Controlled vocabularies by the HUPO-PSI Under the umbrella of the Human Proteome Organization Proteomics Standards Initiative (HUPO-PSI), many domain experts have formed working groups to develop and actively maintain the Mass spectrometry ontology (MS), the Protein modification ontology (MOD) and the Molecular Interactions Controlled Vocabulary (MI), according to predefined rigorous guidelines that adhere to the OBO principles and other best practices [[67]]. Keywords: Cheminformatics; FAIR data; linked data; ontology; research data; terminology EN Cheminformatics FAIR data linked data ontology research data terminology 605 622 18 08/09/22 20220601 NES 220601 Article note: A collection of invited papers on Cheminformatics: Data and Standards. [Extracted from the article]

There are a variety of data sources that can be used for educational research as well as for educational monitoring in Switzerland. Nevertheless, the landscape is fragmented. Individual existing sources are sometimes hard to find and their research potential is difficult to assess. Integrating data sources could add value to research and education monitoring. This paper presents a panel discussion on this topic and goes further by presenting three approaches to improve the potential of data for the Swiss education space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What if a new Covid pandemic in 2070 showed that rapid containment is not possible because today's research data from the years around 2020 were not sustainably preserved. Based on this question, considerations of the role of libraries for research data will be developed. It is concluded that libraries have a chance to play an important part in overcoming the challenges in the context of research data and thus to shape a new identity for the library. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The establishment of a central service point for research data management (RDM) at a university is a long-time process that can be divided into five phases: initiation, foundation, development, roll-out and stabilisation. This roadmap guides the reader through the individual phases and highlights challenges and implementation steps based on experience gained at the University Library of Duisburg-Essen. The essential parts of the concept for the service point „Research Data Services" (RDS) at the University Library of Duisburg-Essen are the developed service portfolio, which covers the various fields of action of the RDM, as well as the organisational structure, which includes all relevant actors within and outside the university. The entanglement of subject-specific science and RDM is an important condition for the success of the establishment of services. At the University of Duisburg-Essen University this is achieved in particular through close cooperation with research networks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Der Beitrag erörtert die Entwicklung des Video-Streaming-Marktes und die Bedeutung für Öffentliche und wissenschaftliche Bibliotheken. Dabei geht er auch auf die Spezialisierung bestimmter Anbieter ein. Zusammenfassend ist festzuhalten, dass Streaming von AV-Medien vor allem für Öffentliche Bibliotheken ein wertvolles Zusatzangebot für Nutzende darstellt, für wissenschaftliche Bibliotheken hinsichtlich der Dauerhaftigkeit, Zitierfähigkeit und Nachnutzbarkeit von Ressourcen noch wesentliche Fragen ungelöst bleiben. The paper discusses the development of the video streaming market and its importance for public and academic libraries. It also deals with the specialization of certain providers. In summary, it can be said that streaming of AV media is a valuable additional service for users, especially for public libraries, but for academic libraries essential questions regarding the persistence, citation and subsequent use of resources remain unsolved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Die TIB gestaltet aktiv den digitalen Wandel von Bibliotheken mit – in Form von Open Science, Open Access, Forschungsdaten und digitaler Langzeitarchivierung sowie bei der Entwicklung von Diensten an der Schnittstelle von analogen und digitalen Formaten. Sie baut ihre Rolle als deutsches Informationszentrum für die Digitalisierung von Wissenschaft und Technik in Zukunft weiter aus und setzt auf die Entwicklung neuer digitaler Angebote, die klassische bibliothekarische Dienste und innovative Forschungsergebnisse miteinander verzahnen. Als wissenschaftliche Infrastruktureinrichtung steht sie vor zwei großen Herausforderungen: Als Deutsche Zentrale Fachbibliothek für Technik und Naturwissenschaften bewegt sie sich als Akteurin im Zentrum des digitalen Wandels des wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens, des digitalen Publikationswesens und der Globalisierung von Information und Kommunikation. Gleichzeitig erbringt sie als von Bund und Ländern finanzierte Einrichtung verstärkt eigene Forschung. TIB plays an active role in achieving the digital transformation of libraries – not only in the form of open science, open access, research data, and digital preservation, but also in the development of services at the interface between analogue and digital formats. The library will continue to expand its role as the German information centre for the digitalisation of science and technology in the future, focusing on the development of new digital offerings that link traditional library services with innovative research results.As a scientific infrastructure facility, TIB faces two major challenges: being the German national library of science and technology, it operates as a stakeholder at the heart of the transition to the digital production of scientific work, digital publishing, and the globalisation of information and communication. At the same time, TIB increasingly conducts its own research as an institute financed by the German federation and the federal states. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ausgehend von den aktuellen Entwicklungen in Deutschland und Europa werden Diskussionen, Initiativen und Projektergebnisse im Bereich des digitalen Datenmanagements vorgestellt. Dabei wird ein besonderer Bezug zu den wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken und deren zukünftige Aufgabenfelder gelegt, die international mit „Data Literacy" und „Data Stewardship" beschrieben werden. In Ergänzung zu „Data Scientists" werden in Zukunft in großer Zahl Experten für das digitale Datenmanagement (sogenannte „Data Stewards") benötigt. Daher haben das Institut für Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin und der Fachbereich Informationswissenschaften der Fachhochschule Potsdam gemeinsam den weiterbildenden Masterstudiengang Digitales Datenmanagement konzipiert, der im April 2019 startete. Wie sich dieser Studiengang in die nationalen und internationalen Entwicklungen und Herausforderungen einfügt, ist Gegenstand dieses Artikels. This article provides an overview over discussions, initiatives, and projects in the field of digital data management while taking currents trends and developments in Germany and Europe into consideration. The main foci of the article are new task areas in research libraries, which are internationally recognized by the terms data literacy and data stewardship. In addition to data scientists, a large number of experts for the management of digital data (so-called data stewards) will be needed in the future. This is why the Berlin School for Library and Information Science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Faculty for Information Sciences at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam have collaborated in designing a new executive Master program Digital Data Management, which started in April 2019. This article elaborates how the Master program is connected to national and international developments and challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Forschungsdatenmanagement bedarf in den kommenden Jahren einer Vielzahl an qualifiziertem Personal, um Aufgaben in Instituten, Forschungsprojekten und im Rahmen der zu schaffenden Nationalen Forschungsdateninfrastruktur zu erfüllen. Im Hinblick auf fehlende Aus- und Fortbildungswege zum entsprechenden Kompetenzerwerb erscheint ein Fachkräftemangel kaum vermeidbar. Um Forschende und Infrastrukturpersonal schnell und umfassend für die Wissensvermittlung zu qualifizieren, wurde im Rahmen des Projekts FDMentor ein Train-the-Trainer Programm entwickelt. In the coming years research data management will require a large number of qualified staff to perform tasks in institutes, research projects and within the future national research data infrastructure. In terms of the lack of education and training paths to acquire the corresponding skills a shortage of skilled workers appears virtually unavoidable. A train-the-trainer programme was successfully developed as part of the FDMentor project to quickly and comprehensively qualify researchers and infrastructure personnel for knowledge transfer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Das Institut für Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin und der Fachbereich Informationswissenschaften der Fachhochschule Potsdam entwickeln den weiterbildenden Masterstudiengang Digitales Datenmanagement. Er vermittelt Kompetenzen der Forschungs- und Handlungsfelder im Datenmanagement unter Berücksichtigung der nationalen und internationalen wissenschaftspolitischen, organisatorischen, technischen und rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Vermittlung von Fähigkeiten im analytischen wie praktischen Umgang mit Forschungs- und Informationsinfrastrukturen besonders in der Domäne Wissenschaft und Forschung sowie in der Ermittlung von Anforderungen und Lösungen für Informationssysteme, die das Datenmanagement unterstützen. The Berlin School of Library and Information Science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Faculty of Information Sciences at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam develop the Executive Master's program Digital Data Management. Students acquire research and application skills of data management with regard to national and international science policies as well as organizational, technical and legal contexts. The program has two educational foci: teaching analytic and practical processing skills in research and information infrastructures, particularly in academic and research domains, and learning how to create requirements analyses and solutions for information systems, which support data management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Forschungsdaten werden in Repositorien gespeichert und zur Nachnutzung erhalten. Dies setzt voraus, dass die Repositorien bestimmte Prinzipien einhalten. Die FAIR-Leitprinzipien besagen, dass wissenschaftliche Daten auffindbar, zugänglich, interoperabel und wiederverwendbar sein sollen. In diesem Artikel wird gezeigt, dass die Open-Source-Software MyCoRe geeignet ist, Repositorien bereitzustellen, die die FAIR-Prinzipien erfüllen. Dazu werden drei MyCoRe-Anwendungen, die Forschungsdaten verwalten und bereitstellen, untersucht und bewertet. Research data are stored in repositories for long term use. This presupposes that the repositories comply with certain principles. The FAIR data guiding principles propose that research data should be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR). This article shows that the open source software MyCoRe is capable of providing repositories that meet the FAIR principles. Therefor three MyCoRe applications that manage and provide research data will be examined and evaluated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Der Beitrag ordnet das Handlungsfeld Forschungsdatenmanagement zunächst in den Kontext sich wandelnder Anforderungen an wissenschaftliche Bibliotheken sowie wissenschaftspolitischer Strategien und Forderungen auf nationaler und europäischer Ebene ein. Im Anschluss liegt der Schwerpunkt auf einem möglichen Leistungsportfolio einer wissenschaftlichen Bibliothek, das Forschenden Unterstützung bei dem Management und der Publikation ihrer Forschungsdaten bietet. Die denkbaren Serviceleistungen reichen dabei von der Beratung bis hin zum Aufbau eigener Forschungsdateninfrastrukturen, die den Nachweis, die Bewertung, das Sichtbarmachen und die Überprüfung von Forschungsdaten ermöglichen. The field of action "research data management" is placed within the context of changing requirements to research libraries as well as of strategies and requirements named by science policy on national and European level. The focus lies on a potential service portfolio of a research library, which offers researchers support with regard to the management and publication of research data. Potential services might range from advisory services to the development of research data infrastructures, which facilitate the record, evaluation, visibility, and review of research data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Forschungsdaten sind in all ihrer fachlichen Heterogenität inzwischen bei fast allen Fachinformationsdiensten ein Thema. Schwerpunkte der Auseinandersetzung sind die Kommunikation von Anforderungen, Schwierigkeiten und Möglichkeiten des Forschungsdatenmanagements in die Fächer hinein sowie der Nachweis von Forschungsdaten in fachlichen Rechercheportalen. Aber auch am Aufbau von Infrastrukturen zur Archivierung und Bereitstellung von Forschungsdaten sind Fachinformationsdienste zunehmend beteiligt. Dies belegen die vorgestellten Beispiele und Entwicklungen. Im Hinblick auf eine national organisierte Forschungsdateninfrastruktur verstehen sich die Fachinformationsdienste als geeignete und bereitwillige Kooperationspartner an der Schnittstelle zwischen Fachcommunities und Infrastrukturen. Dieser Artikel wurde mit Unterstützung von Kollegen der AG FID namentlich von Sylvia Daniel, Julia Kreusch, Maxime Mauriège, Ruth Sindt, Sonja Strunk, Stefan Wulle erstellt. Research data, in all its disciplinary heterogeneity, is in almost all Specialised Information Services part of the agenda. Key aspects of the discussion include the communication of requirements, difficulties and possibilities of research data management towards academic communities as well as the integration of the research data's metadata into research portals. Furthermore, Specialised Information Services are increasingly involved in infrastructure-building for archiving and accessing research data. The examples presented in this article clearly demonstrate these developments. With regard to a nationally organized research data infrastructure, the Specialised Information Services are suitable and willing cooperation partners ideally positioned with close connections to both academic communities and infrastructures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Vor dem Hintergrund der zunehmenden Bedeutung von Open-Data-Ansätzen und neuen Anforderungen an das Forschungsdatenmanagement (FDM) vonseiten der Förderinstitutionen, streben Forschende und Institutionen einen Wandel bislang praktizierter Vorgehensweisen beim FDM an. In einer universitären Kooperation von drei Rechenzentren und drei Universitätsbibliotheken zielt das Projekt Forschungsdatenmanagement in Kooperation (FoDaKo) Rekowski und Hess (2017), FoDaKo Forschungsprojekt. darauf ab, Synergien nutzbar zu machen und Best Practices für das FDM zu entwickeln und auszutauschen. Der Beitrag gibt einen Einblick in Struktur, Maßnahmen und bislang gesammelte Erfahrungen eines Projekts zur Erforschung des Managements von Forschungsdaten in ihrem Lebenszyklus an den Universitäten Düsseldorf, Siegen und Wuppertal und ermöglicht Dritten damit die Adaption von Ansätzen für ein möglichst kosteneffizientes und nachhaltiges FDM. Against the backdrop of the increasing significance of open data approaches and newly emerging requirements in Research Data Management (RDM), imposed by funding agencies, researchers and institutions strive for an upheaval in current RDM practices. The FoDaKo project, Rekowski und Hess (2017), FoDaKo Forschungsprojekt. comprises a collaboration of three Universities' data centres and libraries, gearing towards harnessing synergies in resources, while developing and sharing best practices in RDM throughout the data lifecycle. In this paper, we share our approach and experiences, which can inform other institutions and projects in achieving an economical and sustainable RDM. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Im Rahmen des DFG-SFB 1187, „Medien der Kooperation", an der Universität Siegen, in dem kooperative Praktiken im Mittelpunkt stehen, beschäftigt sich das Zentrum für Informations- und Medientechnologie (ZIMT) zusammen mit der Universitätsbibliothek mit forschungsbegleitenden Hilfestellungen für die einzelnen Forscher in den Teilprojekten beim Umgang mit ihren „Forschungsdaten – von der Produktion bis zur Langzeitarchivierung". Das Zentrum für Informations- und Medientechnologie (ZIMT) unterstützt seit Jahren insbesondere die medienwissenschaftliche Forschung an der Universität Siegen. Die vielfältigen Untersuchungen von kooperativen Medien im SFB 1187 führen zu einer Sammlung großer und heterogener Datenmengen über hoch kontextbezogene Kooperationszusammenhänge, die es zu verwalten gilt, welches eine große Herausforderung für ein nachhaltiges Forschungsdatenmanagement darstellt. Für die Forscher im SFB müssen unterstützende Forschungsdateninfrastrukturen konzipiert werden. Es werden verschiedene fachspezifische und disziplinübergreifende Anforderungen an das Forschungsdatenmanagement im DFG-SFB 1187 aufgezeigt (Daten, Datenanalyse, Tools, Speicherung etc.) und analysiert. Dargestellt werden unterschiedliche Use-Cases. As part of the German Research Foundation (DFG) – Collaborative Research Center 1187, "Media of Cooperation" at the University of Siegen in which cooperative practices are central, the Center for Information and Media Technology (ZIMT) focuses on the research supporting assistance for the individual researchers in the sub-projects dealing with their "research data – from production to long-term archiving". ZIMT has been supporting media research in particular at the university for years. The multifaceted examination of cooperative media in the CRC 1187 lead to a collection of large and heterogeneous data sets in highly contextual collaborative relationships that need to be managed, which is a major challenge for a sustainable research data management. For the researchers at the CRC Researchers supportive research data infrastructures are needed to be developed. The article shows various subject-specific and interdisciplinary requirements for research data management in the DFG-CRC 1187 (data, data analysis, tools, storage, etc.) and analyses them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Die Forderungen nach einem systematischen Management von Forschungsdaten steigen. Wissenschaftler haben trotzdem oftmals wenig Anreize, eine gute und auf Nachnutzbarkeit abzielende Dokumentation von Daten und ihren Forschungsprozessen zu erstellen. Wir diskutieren Data Sharing und reproduzierbare Forschung vor dem Hintergrund des Anreizschemas in der Wissenschaft und stellen zwei Ansätze der ZBW – Leibniz Informationszentrum Wirtschaft vor, die Forschende beim Data Sharing und der Publikation von Replikationen unterstützen. The demand for a systematic research data management is increasing. Nevertheless, incentives to document data and research in order to improve reproducibility are clearly reduced for individual researchers. In this article we discuss data sharing and reproducible research with regard to the incentive scheme in academia and present two approaches of the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics that support researchers in data sharing and the publication of replication studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Die Heterogenität der Forschungsdatenlandschaft innerhalb der Geisteswissenschaften verhindert eine generische und zentralisierte Umsetzung von Forschungsdatenmanagement. Die Arbeitsgruppe der Datenzentren im Verband „Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum" (DHd) ist ein Zusammenschluss von insgesamt 22 Institutionen, die forschungsnah allgemeine Services und hochspezialisierte Dienstleistungen im Bereich Forschungsdatenmanagement für die Geisteswissenschaften anbieten. Mit der Entwicklung des Dienstekatalogs der AG haben die Mitglieder eine zentrale Anlaufstelle zum gesamten Angebotsspektrum aller AG-Mitglieder geschaffen, die eine bessere Auffindbarkeit der Zentren und Services sowie ein zielgerichteteres Forschungsdatenmanagement gewährleisten soll. The heterogeneity of research data within the humanities inhibits a generic and centralized implementation of research data management. The working group Datenzentren within the "Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum" (DHd) association is a union of 22 research-related data centres that offer generic services and highly specialized research data management services for the humanities. The members of the working group have created a service catalogue as a central access point for all services provided by the group's members. The aim of the catalogue is to improve the discoverability of the centres and services, and to provide a more target-oriented research data management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Im Sommer 2017 lancierte die ETH-Bibliothek nach rund dreijähriger Projektphase die Research Collection, eine neue Publikationsplattform für die Forschenden an der ETH Zürich. Die Plattform vereint die Funktionen einer Hochschulbibliographie, eines Open-Access-Repository und eines Forschungsdaten-Repository unter einem Dach. Sie wurde auf Basis der Open-Source-Software DSpace implementiert und löste zugleich zwei Vorgängersysteme ab. Heute ist die Research Collection ein zentraler Baustein innerhalb der hochschulweiten Informationsinfrastruktur der ETH Zürich. In the summer of 2017, after a three-year project period, the ETH Library launched Research Collection, a new publication platform for researchers at ETH Zurich. The platform integrates the functionalities of a university bibliography, an open access repository, and a research data repository, all under one roof. It was implemented based on the open source software DSpace and replaced two legacy systems in one go. Today, the Research Collection constitutes a central building block of ETH Zurich's university-wide information infrastructure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound) is a European Union agency based in Dublin, Ireland. As a European information service provider, Eurofound provides research results, data, information and knowledge on living and working conditions in the European Union in order to further develop employment and social policy strategies at European level. The aim is to contribute to the improvement of living and working conditions in Europe. This article provides an overview of the services, working methods and intended impact logic of this European information providing agency, as well as an overview of the similarities and differences in the working methods of other comparable EU agencies and how they contribute to and cooperate with the EU policy-relevant provision of scientific information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Specialised Information Service for Solid Earth Geosciences (FID GEO), run by the Göttingen State and University Library and the Bibliothek des Wissenschaftsparks Albert Einstein at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences Potsdam, offers services for E-publishing, research data publishing, and digitisation. All services are presented on the website www.fidgeo.de. Texts and maps are permanently accessible on the repository GEO-LEOe-docs; research data are published in cooperation with GFZ Data Services. FID GEO cooperates closely with learned societies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since 2013, the linguistics portal offers a national platform for scientific information concerning all fields of linguistics. Originally designed as a virtual library, the linguistics portal is now being expanded into a specialist information service. This article presents the portal's previous development in chronological order and describes more detailed how the features and service offers are planned to be expanded. The focus is on subject-specific types of resources like language corpora and the application of innovative technologies in the field of Linked Open Data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Due to the increase in digital research methods in the humanities, the demand for research data management services is growing rapidly. We describe the resulting challenges and perspectives of a humanities data centre for the sustainable archiving and provision of digital research data using the example of the Humanities Data Centre. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study investigated the factors associated with Korean professors' intentions to openly share data. As Korea does not have an institutional or regulatory framework governing data sharing, understanding the motivations and/or concerns of a Korean faculty might not only provide policy guidance for data-sharing practices in Korea but also help academic libraries of this country develop data management services valuable for researchers. In particular, survey responses from 190 professors and follow-up interviews with eleven faculty members were analyzed and revealed that professors who were more willing to openly share data tended to agree with data reuse conditioned on easy access to others' data, to have altruistic reasons for data sharing and to be uncertain about repositories and the demand for their data. Professors who were less willing to make data publicly available tended to fear exploitation and to be interested in exchanging data for control of access to such data, for approval of the dissemination of results based on such data, and for co-authorship and collaboration opportunities. The study suggested that policies might be designed to incentivize data sharing by including supporting data citation, allowing data providers to control access to data, and considering ethical issues and various co-authorship practices. It also discussed implications of the findings for academic librarians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article describes the present situation of web archiving at the level of the Land of Baden-Württemberg. The essential legal basis for collecting and archiving websites and related single documents exists. At the same time, the selection of contents and technical realization of the offer is an extensive task that is shared among several state institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The digitization of society results among other things in methodical changes in the Arts and Humanities, leading to reflection and discussion regarding new potential uses for digital research data and scientific collections. Within DARIAH-DE this subject - changing methodical and epistemological practices - has been discussed by the stakeholder committee for scientific collections. In the light of the spreading digitization of research the stakeholder committee commits itself to sharpen the self-conception of the Digital Humanities and the work of DARIAH-DE in the context of research data and scientific collections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In a changing world, libraries have not only to keep in step with the developments but also to exert their influence as far as possible. Relevant developments congregate in the transformation of the library as a physical concept into a central learning and gathering place at the research campus, illustrating that the functional concept of a library is needed more than ever. As trusted advisers for the academia libraries can play a fundamental role in a time where more and more scholars are afraid of "information overload" and the definition of academic resources includes increasingly heterogeneous content types and new definitions of publishing. The new nature of tasks and content types ask for new services and new tools. The development and reliable maintenance of such services and tools are genuine tasks for libraries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This contribution presents an overview of the concepts and components of the DARIAH-DE federation architecture. After a distinction between requirements of research-specific and cross-domain integration, the creation context and application context of research data are differentiated along with the facilities for their explication within the research architecture, which is shown to support generic and specific queries within the generic search. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since 2011, DARIAH-DE is developing federation architecture for research data that consists of module based (web) services. One of the core elements is the DARIAH- DE Repository that allows scholars and also research projects from the humanities to safely store their research data. Providing persistent identifiers the repository guarantees access to the data and so ensures re-use and enables sustainability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

SowiDataNet is a research data infrastructure under construction for social sciences and economics. Its central element is the development of a webbased research data repository which allows researchers to document, publish and share their data with other researchers in a secure and lasting way. The development of this new service is orientated towards the community's real needs which, amongst other things, is mirrored in the conduct of a detailed demand analysis. It focusses especially on the repository's flexible integration into the practical workflows of the institutional research data management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The goal of RADAR is to simplify and establish inter-disciplinary research data management for university libraries and projects. In summer 2016? 'RADAR - Research Data Repository' starts as a service that offers researchers, institutions of different disciplines and publishers a generic infrastructure for archiving and publishing their research data. Among others, services are longterm data availability with Handle or Digital Object Identifier (DOI), an adaptable role and access rights management, an optional peer review function and access statistics. The business model encourages researchers to integrate arising charges for using the repository into applications for Third-Party funding and data management plans. Published data are available as Open Data to be used by Data Mining, metadata harvesting or linking with search portals. This interlinking enables a sustainable research data management and the establishment of data infrastructures like RADAR. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As part of the e-science strategy of Baden-Wuerttemberg a comprehensive survey on the topic of research data management amongst researchers from the state's nine universities was conducted in 2014/15. The results indicate that the issue is highly relevant as research communities need conceptional, technological, and consultative support from infrastructural facilities in their handling of data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article deals with quality assurance of digital research data. Three categories of quality assurance are identified: digital research data itself, its metadata and research data infrastructures. An approach to define quality of research data and quality assurance is provided. The recommendations of national and international initiatives on interdisciplinary aspects of quality assurance are presented. Moreover a disciplinary example from historical corpus linguistics is introduced. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]