Das institutionelle Forschungsdatenrepositorium FDAT der Universität Tübingen

Abstract

The eScience Center of Tübingen University offers various services and, with the FDAT research data repository, the necessary technical infrastructure for the long-term archiving and reuse of research data for local research projects and the scientists. Following the guidelines for an Open Archival Information System OAIS, FDAT aims at preserving scientific data as well as making the data available to the general public in open access. In addition, scientists are advised and technically supported by the operators of the repository during all steps of the research data life cycle. The infrastructure of the repository is supported by the guidelines for research data handling as adopted by Tübingen University and, in addition to the eScience Center, specifically supervised by Tübingen University Library and the local center for data processing.The repository commenced production on 01.01.2017 and currently (15.08.2018) holds 6741 digital objects.