The research group “Digital Information Infrastructures” addresses the management of research data acording to the idea of an “European Open Science Cloud” as developed by the European Commission and of the national, federated infrastructure for research data recommended by the Council of Scientific Information Infrastructures (RfII).
Leibniz Strategy Forum on Open Science
The Leibniz Strategy Forum on Open Science is tasked with supporting the Leibniz Association and its institutions. The strategy forum relies on the networking and Open Science expertise of the Leibniz institutions, which focus on the common question of how to establish Open Science practices. In this sense, the strategy forum envisions bundling the Open Science activities within the Leibniz Association across all sections and promoting the visibility of these activities at national, European and international levels. In addition, it plans to create an environment for cooperative research into conditions for success in Open Science.
REPOD – Repository for Policy Documents
REPOD is intended as a digital repository that makes policy documents searchable directly and across disciplines and ensures uniform quality assurance.
Consortium for the Social, Educational, Behavourial and Economic Sciences (KonsortSWD)
KonsortSWD aims to support researchers and research data centres in the administration and reuse of (new) sensitive and non-sensitive data according to the FAIR principles, with regard to both technology and content. This includes, beside sustainable research data management across the research data life cycle, in particular the long-term management of data availability in due consideration of ethical and legal aspects.
Consortium NFDI for Business, Economic and Related Data (BERD@NFDI)
BERD@NFDI develops a future-oriented and powerful research data infrastructure for the integrated management of unstructured data and scientific software to serve its disciplinary community. The service portfolio goes beyond the provision of a storage space for data and scientific software and is oriented strictly towards the needs of the scholarly community.
Consortium NFDI for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (NFDI4DataScience)
NFDI4DataScience aims to build a community-driven research data infrastructure for data science and Artificial Intelligence. Data science is establishing itself as a discipline driven by the technological progress in the field of informatics and has enormous relevance for many other scientific disciplines. The consortium focuses on various types of data and artifacts established within the community, including publications, data, models and code.
FAIR Data Spaces
Access to a common cloud-based data space for science and business – that is the declared goal of FAIR Data Spaces. The FAIR Data Spaces project aims to link Gaia-X and the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) by means of a demonstrator domain, creating a pilot dataspace for industry and research in compliance with the FAIR principles.
GO FAIR
The GO FAIR initiative works towards the findability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability of research data across national and disciplinary borders.
Science policy
The expertise of the research group in the area of Open Science and Digitisation of the Science System is increasingly sought after for consulting activities in science policy.
Open Science Conference
The international conference of the Leibniz Strategy Forum on Open Science “Open Science Conference” has established itself as the core conference for this topic in Europe.
EDUArc
(concluded in 2023)
The project “EDUArc” adressed the question of which infrastructural, organisational and didactical framework conditions are required to sustainably build digital educational resources for tertiary education in cooperation with stakeholders. It was funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
Q-Aktiv
(concluded in 2021)
The project “Q-Aktiv” aimed to improve the methods for forecasting the dynamics and interactions between research, technological development and innovation. It was funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
KOLab
(concluded in 2021)
KOLab was a joint lab based on the Leibniz Association’s position paper for the Pact for Research and Innovation. The ZBW and the University of Kiel will jointly research and develop systems and processes for the optimal handling of research data and their corresponding software.
GeRDI
(concluded in 2019)
The project „GeRDI – Generic Research Data Infrastructure“ aimed to build a federated and linked-up infrastructure for research data (scientific cloud) where scientists can conduct multidisciplinary searches for research data. It was funded by the German Research Foundation.
EEXCESS – “Enhancing Europe’s eXchange in Cultural Educational and Scientific Resources”
(concluded in 2016)
The large EU-funded project EEXCESS used a completely novel approach to information dissemination. “Take the content to the user, not the user to the content” was the basic idea of the project. It aimed to link web content, such as images, videos, infographics, statistics or texts from social media channels and blogs, with cultural, educational and scientific content in a personalised and contextualised manner.
The ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics cooperated with ten other European partners. The ZBW was primarily concerned with the design of novel, linked and multidisciplinary information landscapes and with the technical integration of its search engine EconBiz into these environments. The ZBW also ensured that the project’s research findings became part of the public debate and found sustained use.
LibRank
(concluded in 2016)
The LibRank research project engaged in the analysis and optimisation of search results in library information systems. It was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Given the fact that the search habits even of scientists are characterised by the heavy use of commercial search engines, the project aimed to analyse resp. implement the effects and adaptions for library information systems.
