Co-Applicant

Baden-Wuerttemberg State Archives are esteemed beyond Germany as a leading research infrastructure institution and as a centre for regional studies. It has decades of experience in the fields of digitisation and the online presentation of cultural assets. Catalogue information and digitised archival material are made available to researchers both in the archives’ own system of online finding aids and in various comprehensive portals. The LABW is a founding member of the Competence Network of the German Digital Library (DDB), operator of the DDB ingest agency for archives and member of the DDB Board of Directors. Thereby, it represents both the interests of the archives community and of users in the DDB's steering committees. In addition, the LABW is involved in the German Archives Portal (AP-D). AP-D is the central infrastructure for networked research of digital sources and for indexing information from German archives.

By developing the above-mentioned information systems, the LABW plays a major role in the conception and distribution of data-exchange formats and standards – EAD (DDB), archival METS/MODS profile –  and in the further development of the DFG Viewer. LABW is an active partner for historical research in numerous third-party funded cooperation projects. The DFG project "GND4C - GND for Cultural Data" –  in which the LABW represents the archives sector and, within the project, deals with geographic entities –  focuses on  the requirements for  a comprehensive semantic network among  the data of different infrastructure institutions. In the field of historical scholarship, the LABW offers the  watermark information system and the "Südwestdeutsche Archivalienkunde''. With DIMAG, the LABW has created one of Germany's leading infrastructures for digital archiving. It is constantly developing the system in cooperation with other federal states and partner institutions. The system follows the international standard and reference model for an Open Archive Information System (OAIS). LABW is also actively involved in the nestor competence network (Competence Network for Long-term Archiving and Long-term Availability of Digital Resources for Germany). Finally, it is strengthening its activities in the fields of the optimisation of digital research data and research data management through the third-party funded project FDMLab@LABW, which started in 2020. The project aims to establish a basic infrastructure in the field of e-science and research data management in order to contribute substantially to the establishment of the NFDI.

 

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Co-Applicant

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TA 3 Data Services

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Memory Institution

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Trier University is a middle-sized university with a strong profile in the humanities and social sciences, psychology and environmental sciences situated at the western border of Rhineland-Palatinate (RLP). It is a member of the Université de la Grande Region (UniGR) with close connections to Belgian, French and Luxemburg research institutions and universities. Over the last two decades Trier University’s history department has continuously developed its profile in research-oriented digital history, covering the longue durée from ancient to contemporary history. Trier’s historically oriented research community creates, curates and uses a broad array of different data types (see Appendix and LoC). Two collaborative research centers (SFB 235 and 600) and several data-driven research projects have explored and established innovative digital research tools, research techniques, workflows and research infrastructures, including simulation techniques, network visualisation, topic modelling and time-specific controlled vocabularies. Members of the history faculty are engaged in the development of a data culture in historically oriented disciplines by serving in advisory boards of historical associations (VHD, AG Sozialdaten und Zeitgeschichte, OAH) and as experts on scientific boards of digital data centres and initiatives on national and international levels. Based on its experience in collaborative historical research in longue durée perspectives, Trier University has developed tools and services for collaborative research data management in the humanities. Today, the Virtual Research Environment "FuD" serves the needs of the history community in Germany and beyond. It offers a research infrastructure that combines hermeneutic text analysis, quantitative data analysis and cartographic methods and that is capable of handling and processing a broad range of digital historical sources, including audio-visual, textual, numerical and geographical data. In order to support humanities researchers in developing and implementing IT-based research-projects, UT has established the Service Center eSciences (SeS). By coordinating and implementing UT’s RDM strategy, it is responsible for RDM-consultations and training. It has developed the DIAMANT-Model including an RDM competence profile and a qualification concept to implement and support an RDM service landscape in research institutions. SeS has also developed the virtual data repository VIDA for long-term preservation of different historical data domains. VIDA will become the long-term archiving infrastructure of RLP and SeS will serve as one the coordinators of RLP’s research data management strategy. UT also participates in the NFDI consortium +text and contributes to the cross-cutting topics data rights and data ethics with its Institut für Recht und Digitalisierung (IRDT).

 

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Co-Applicant

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Task Area 4: Data Literacy

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Scholarly, Research and Infrastructure Institution

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