Uni-Tübingen

RDM Facilities, Initiatives & Services

Central Facilities at the University

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The University of Tübingen offers various services, support and consultation options in the field of research data management (RDM) within the framework of central facilities - both interdisciplinary and for specific disciplines and target groups:

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Research Data Repository of the University

FDAT research data archive provides services and technical infrastructure for long-term archiving and re-use of research data for all disciplines.
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Center for Information, Communication and Media (IKM)

IKM includes the University Library (UB) and the IT Center (ZDV). As a cooperative supply system, it is in charge of digital information processing and communication technology at the university.
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Core Facilities

Core Facilities are central service facilities of the university that provide methods, equipment and services, also in the area of research data management, and advise researchers on discipline-specific issues.
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Dr. Eberle Center for Digital Competence

The Dr. Eberle Center for Digital Competence offers students and young researchers from all disciplines at the University of Tübingen a wide range of courses to familiarize themselves with methods and tools for the generation, processing, analysis, visualization and sustainable storage of digital data.
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NFDI - German National Research Data Infrastructure

In late 2018, the Joint Science Conference decided to establish and fund a National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI). Since then, the federal and state governments have provided up to EUR 90 million annually for this purpose by funding a total of 26 consortia from various disciplines in three funding rounds.

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Other Initiatives and Services at the University

Structures and services in the field of RDM have been and are being established and developed within numerous projects at the university. The selection below provides an overview of current and recently completed projects and initiatives from recent years:

HPC - High Performance Computing

High-Performance Computing (HPC) refers to computer-aided calculations, i.e. computational work that requires high computing power or storage capacity to process. The University offers the following services in this area:

BinAC - Bioinformatics and Astrophysics Research Cluster | part of the bwHPC initiative

bwSFS - Storage for Science | storage system for communities of the HPC clusters Nemo and BinAC

CITAR - Citing and Archiving Research | long-term archiving for HPC users

Research Data Centers

Since 2019, four research data centers are funded by the state of Baden-Württemberg. Within the data centers, researchers are to work closely with computing centers and libraries to enable access to and use of digital data collections. The University of Tübingen is involved in the following research data center:

BioDATEN - Bioinformatics Data Environment

Virtual Research Environments

Virtual or Digital Research Environments are working platforms designed to enable scientists to conduct research together at different locations at the same time. These types of research environments offer, for example, software services and communication networks and integrate different resources. At the University of Tübingen, the following virtual research environments related to RDM exist:

IMeRa - Integrated Mobile Health Research Platform (Life Sciences)

Spacialist - VRE for the Spatial Humanities (Humanities)

FID - Specialised Information Services

Specialised Information Services (FID) are intended to strengthen information infrastructures for science.
The DFG is currently funding 42 FIDs, which are located at academic libraries.

The University of Tübingen is involved in the following FIDs:
Criminology | since 2014
Theology | since 2015
Religious Studies | since 2016

CRC Subprojects

Information Management and Information Infrastructure in Collaborative Research Centers (INF) can be applied for as a subproject in Collaborative Research Centers (CRC) or CRC/Transregio (TRR) of the DFG. They serve to develop and implement project-specific data management concepts and to establish and operate the associated infrastructure. In addition, RDM structures may also be located in other CRC subprojects.

CRC subprojects with RDM structures in which the University of Tübingen is or was involved are listed below:

TRR 356 - PlantMicrobe: INF Virtual Environment for Research Data and Analysis (VERDA) | Natural- and Life Sciences | Since 2023

CRC 1070 - ResourceCultures: Service Project Geoscientific and Geoarchaeological Expertise and Research Data Management | Humanities and Social Sciences | 2013 - 2025

TRR 209 - Liver Cancer: INF Standardized Biobanking, Evaluation of Human Sample and Model Systems, Databases, Bioinformatics | Life Sciences | 2017 - 2022

CRC 1253 - CAMPOS: INF Data Infrastructure and Data Communication Environments | Geosciences | 2017 - 2021

CRC 833 - The Construction of Meaning: INF Heterogeneous Primary Research Data - Representation and Processing | Humanities and Social Sciences | 2009 - 2021

EU Funding

The following projects and initiatives related to RDM are or were funded by the EU:

GDI - European Genomic Data Infrastructure | Life Sciences | 2022 - 2026

EOSC-Life - Building a Digital Space for the Life Sciences | Biology | 2019 - 2023

SSHOC - Social Sciences & Humanities Open Cloud | Humanities and Social Sciences | 2019 - 2022

EOSC-Hub - Integrated Services For The European Open Science Cloud | Humanities & Social Sciences | 2019 - 2020

PARTHENOS - Pooling Activities, Resources and Tools for Heritage E-research Networking, Optimization and Synergies | Humanities & Social Sciences | 2015 - 2019

Federal Government, DFG and Foundation Funding

The following projects and initiatives related to RDM are or were funded by the federal government, the DFG or foundations:

de.KDC - German Competence Center Cloud Technologies for Data Management and Processing | Computer Science | Federal Government | 2023 - 2026

DIFUTURE - Medical Informatics Consortium | Life Sciences | Federal Government | 2018 - 2026

CLARIAH-DE | Humanities and Social Sciences | Federal Government | 2019 - 2021

de.NBI - German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure | Bioinformatics | Federal Government | 2014 - 2021

CLARIN-D - Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure | Humanities and Social Sciences | Federal Government | 2016 - 2020

LAPPS-CLARIN | Humanities and Social Sciences | Foundation | 2016 - 2018

NaLiDa - Center for Sustainability of Linguistic Data | Humanities and Social Sciences | DFG | 2013 - 2016

State Funding

The following projects and initiatives related to RDM are or were funded by the state of Baden-Württemberg:

ANOVAGET - Annotation and Visualization of Genomic and Transcriptomic Data for Molecular Tumor Boards | Life Sciences | 2021 - 2022

IDEM - Integrated Digital Consent Management for Clinical and Research | Life Sciences | 2021 - 2022

ORDP - Open Research Data Portal | all disciplines | 2016 - 2019

ViCE - Virtual Open Science Collaboration Environment | Humanities and Social Sciences | 2016 - 2018

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Cross-Regional, National and International Structures

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RDM in Baden-Wuerttemberg  

RDM in Germany  

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RDM Cross-Regional (DACH)  

RDM International  

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