Research data management is getting more and more attention. Thus, various associations, organisations, and societies on a national or even international level are dedicated to the topic and promote it. A small insight shall be given here.
Guidelines for handling research data were published by the DFG in September 2015.
At the national level, the Rat für Informationsinfrastrukturen (RFII, Council for Information Infrastructures) was appointed by the Gemeinsame Wirtschaftskonferenz (GWK, Joint Economic Conference) in 2014. Its members represent various scientific disciplines, facilities and institutions. The RFII is dedicated to the thematic complex "Research Data - Sustainability - Internationality" and advises politics and science as an expert body.
A central recommendation of the RFII was the establishment of a National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI). To achieve this, consortia are set up in which scientists from specific disciplines join forces to develop solutions around the topic of RDM for their specialist community. Additionally, these consortia will also work across disciplines to define general standards. Nine consortia in the first funding round (of three planned funding rounds) started in October 2020. The goals of the consortia are:
On an international level, the formation of a European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) has been driven forward since 2015. This is a project of the European Commission, whereby providing a cloud solution for European scientists is intended to facilitate access to scientific data and data processing services, among other things.
Another European project is Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe (OpenAIRE). This is a European research information system designed to provide policy advice, in particular to policymakers, on open science, to offer various open science services and link research results. The generic research data repository Zenodo was developed under OpenAIRE.