REFODAT: New service for publishing and securing research data

Data sets can be submitted at any time via the refodat.de website. An editorial team supports the submission process and ensures, among other things, that data complies with the FAIR principles as far as possible. In addition, the repository provides interfaces that make it possible to transfer collected and possibly curated holdings from other systems (e.g. work platforms) that cannot guarantee permanent availability. The assignment of a DOI, the linking of data authors and datasets with additional identifiers and resources (including ORCIDs, ROR, GND) as well as export and citation functions (such as JSON-LD or BibTeX) are supported. Data sets from researchers at Thuringian universities that have already been published in other subject repositories can be registered in the repository and the metadata transferred.

The service was developed by the Thuringian Competence Network for Research Data Management (TKFDM), the Thuringian Library Service Centre (BSC) and the IT Centre of Thuringian Universities (HS-ITZ) and funded as part of the Strategy for Digitisation in Higher Education (2021–2025). Long-term operation is ensured by the participating organisations.

An initial overview of how the repository works will be provided by a 30-minute coffee lecture (online) on 10 December 2024 at 1 pm. Further information on this event can be found on the event website.