Infrastructures

The National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) aims to ensure the systematic management, long-term preservation, and accessibility of data across disciplines and countries according to the FAIR principles. 

The ZBW participates in the following consortia:

• Consortium for the Social, Educational, Behavourial and Economic Sciences (KonsortSWD)
• Consortium NFDI for Business, Economic and Related Data (BERD@NFDI)
• Consortium NFDI for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (NFDI4DataScience)

The ZBW Journal Data Archive is a service for economics journals. The main purpose of this web service is to promote reproducibility in economic research: academic journals and their authors can publish research data, calculation methods and other materials relating to published articles in the JDA, so that third parties can understand how the research results were methodologically obtained. The research data is linked to the corresponding article. The research data itself is assigned its own DOI.

Building research data infrastructures is a field in which the ZBW has gained much experience in many previous projects.