FDAT repository
FDAT is the institutional research data repository of the University of Tübingen, which enables the long-term archiving and publication of research data. It is based on the open source software InvenioRDM developed at CERN and is operated by us as part of the Information, Communication and Media Center IKM for the University of Tübingen. It is available free of charge to researchers from all disciplines at the University of Tübingen.
Contact us if you would like to publish or long-term archive research data or intend to do so in a future project!
Support of FAIR data principles
FDAT is committed to high quality data management and places great emphasis on adherence to FAIR principles to promote discoverability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability of stored research data. To achieve this, FDAT follows a set of best practices for data management, including the use of standardized metadata (DataCite), persistent identifiers (DOI), and open licenses (Creative Commons). FDAT also enables clear and detailed documentation of its data, including data descriptions, data provenance, and data quality assessments.
Levels of data organization in FDAT
The data is organized into three main levels in FDAT. The first level is that of communities, which represents a group of researchers, a specific research project, or an organizational unit such as a faculty. The second level is the collections level, which represents a subset of data within a community, typically organized around a specific topic or research question. The third level is the dataset level, which represents individual files or sets of files within a collection.