The group aligns its Research Data Management (RDM) with the “Principles of Good Scientific Practice”, the “Open-Science-Policy”, and the “Policy on Handling Research Data at the University of Freiburg”.
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Building upon this general framework, the group will develop a data management strategy fitting the the special needs and establish it in a group-specific guideline. It will specify the responsibilites of researchers for their data including annotating metadata and licensing.
The University of Freiburg provides its members with FreiData (https://freidata.uni-freiburg.de) as a generic repository for publishing research data, as well as the storage system bwSFS for archiving, supplementary to initial or timed publication in discipline-specific repositories or NFDI services. In accordance with the Open Science policy and following the recommendation of the European Commission, the project adheres to the principle “as open as possible and as closed as necessary”. Research data from the project will be retained for a period of ten years. Data suitable for publication will be assigned a DOI to make them citable. Data with restricted access due to data protection or other reasons will be archived in a dedicated area on bwSFS. Descriptive metadata for these access-restricted data will be published as a separate digital object on FreiData to ensure that the actual data are findable for an authorized group in accordance with the FAIR principles.
FreiData provides features to establish group workflows for internal reviewing before publishing and assigning DOIs. A further purpose of a formalised peer review process is to integrate quality and integrity checks.
In selecting licenses, the group will follow the recommendations of the Open Science policy, which also legally prepares for reuse. The provision of curated data sets with machine readably license labels on a community specific repository or FreiData ensures the reusability of the data. This workflow aims for the actual implementation of the FAIR principle. Part of the curation process is contextualization, packeting, integrity checking, and documenting to foster interoperability.