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The Alliance of German Science Organisations

-Recommendations on Data

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Structure of German Research Funding

Basic funding relations

Federal Government

Länder

Business enterprise sector

Project funding

Federal Government

Business enterprise sector

DFG

Federal Government

Länder

Business enterprise

sector

Intramuralresearch laboratories

Federationof Industrial CooperativeResearch Associations

DFG

HGF

MPG

FhG

WGL

Federal institutionsperforming R&D

Länder insti-tutions per-forming R&D

Academies

Higher EducationSector

ICSTI Annual Members’ Meeting & WorkshopDr. Stefan Winkler-Nees; Paris, 5. March 2012

Structure of German Research Funding

Basic funding relations

Federal Government

Länder

Business enterprise sector

Project funding

Federal Government

Business enterprise sector

DFG

Federal Government

Länder

Business enterprise

sector

Intramuralresearch laboratories

Federationof Industrial CooperativeResearch Associations

DFG

HGF

MPG

FhG

WGL

Federal institutionsperforming R&D

Länder insti-tutions per-forming R&D

Academies

Higher EducationSector

DFG

HGF

MPG

FhG

WGL

AvH

DAAD

HRK

WR

The Alliance of GermanScience Organisations

ICSTI Annual Members’ Meeting & WorkshopDr. Stefan Winkler-Nees; Paris, 5. March 2012

22. June 2008: Priority Initiative

"Digital Information"

The main topics are:

National Licensing

National Hosting Strategy

Research Data

Open Access

Legal Frameworks

Virtual Research Environments

The Alliance of German Science Organisations

http://www.allianzinitiative.de/

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What is the issue? Research Data ...

... are the basis of scientific findings.

... are inadequately used today.

... are accessible in a very limited manner.

... are not available on a long-term basis.

The Vision of the Science Organisations:

Research data should be freely accessible, they should be easy to get and they

should be professionally curated on a long-term basis.

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ICSTI Annual Members’ Meeting & WorkshopDr. Stefan Winkler-Nees; Paris, 5. March 2012

The Alliance Recommendations on Data

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Preservation and accessibility

In accordance with important international organisations involved in funding and performing research, the Alliance supports the long-term preservation of, and the principle of open access to, data from publicly funded research. This principle shall be balanced against the scientific and legal interests of researchers. The protection of the personal data of participants, patients and others affected by the collected data, as well as obligations to third parties — e.g. cooperation partners — have to be taken into account. The principles of good scientific practice must also to be observed.

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The ways of and conditions for access to research data must be developed separately for the individual scientific disciplines, taking into account the methods of data acquisition, the volume and potential for integration of the data, as well as its practical usability. At the same time, the respective life cycles and usage scenarios of the data in the specific research fields have to be considered.

Differences between the scientific disciplines

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The provision of research data for further use is a service which benefits the sciences and humanities in their entirety. The Alliance encourages the recognition and support of this additional costly and time consuming effort.

Scientific recognition

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For those involved in research, an appropriate range of training and support services for professional data management must be made available, meeting the specific requirements of the different disciplines.

Teaching and qualification

Information

Data

Knowledge

Information embedded in an intelligent network

Structured data

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ICSTI Annual Members’ Meeting & WorkshopDr. Stefan Winkler-Nees; Paris, 5. March 2012

Proper use of research data requires that the data are documented and provided with appropriate metadata in a standardised manner. Observing subject-specific requirements, standards, metadata catalogues and registries are to be developed in such a way that interdisciplinary use is also possible.

Use of standards

"The great thing about standards is,

that there are so many to choose

from.“

(Anonymous)

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ICSTI Annual Members’ Meeting & WorkshopDr. Stefan Winkler-Nees; Paris, 5. March 2012

Sustainable research data management imposes a wide range of technical and organisational requirements. These requirements must be defined through the cooperation of researchers and information specialists. Infrastructures are to be developed according to these requirements and, if possible, interoperably integrated in international and interdisciplinary networks from the start.

Development of infrastructures

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Shaping and moderation of an awareness building process aiming at using digital

resources more efficiently, develop and implement appropriate infrastructures and tools and

to finally make research data available (back up and archiving and re-use).

Close cooperation of scientists as data producers and providers to data repositories and

also as users of those repositories with experts of the information management jointly

shaping the process.

Define discipline specific demands and specifications and include these into the process.

Development of means for publication of research data (incl. peer-review).

Identify best practise examples and use experience.

Initiate pilot and exploration projects.

Research data management: approaches and strategies

Supports the systematic collaboration of scientists with

information specialists.

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Thank you very much for your attention!

Stefan.Winkler-Nees@dfg.de