TIB - Technische Informationsbibliothek

KomFor - Centre of Expertise for Research Data from the Earth and Environment

The DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft – German Research Foundation) is advancing the setting-up of an information infrastructure for research data. The DFG’s main committee has approved 27 projects which should improve access to research data. The TIB is participating in this "Centre of Expertise for Research Data from the Earth and Environment" project

Project Manager TIB:
Dr. rer. nat. Irina Sens

Project Team TIB:
Jan Brase
Sebastian Peters

Project Funding:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

Project Duration:
1.7.2011 – 30.6.2014

Further Project Partners:
Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen (Coordination)
German Climate Computing Center, Hamburg
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven
Helmholtz Center Potsdam- German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam
German Aerospace Center, Oberpfaffenhofen

The centre of expertise is intended to be the link between scientific institutions, publishers, libraries and an existing archive network for data from earth and environmental research. Its general aim is a long-term improvement in data availability and quality. Specifically, sustainable and reliable ways of publishing scientific data are to be created which are commensurate with the quality standards in scientific publishing. The intention is to create, from a user’s perspective, a single authority which will support scientific projects, institutes, research groups and also individual scientists in all questions of data management – from project planning, via data collection, quality assurance, registration and long-term/digital preservation to the publication of data. The technical core will be a corresponding web-based, personalisable service platform which is to be constructed.

The TIB will primarily advance the further development of the infrastructure created at DataCite (DOI registration, Metadata Store) and the services building on this. The stated objective is to position DataCite as the first contact partner for the registration of scientific data thereby establishing an appropriate counterpart to Crossref, the DOI registration agency for scientific publications.

The tasks include:

• Data catalogue services (cross-linking)
• Bibliometric services
• Development of data specific citations and citing aids
• Compilation of user statistics
• Evaluation and accreditation of new publication agents (data providers)