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Research data management

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The importance of digital research data is constantly increasing due to the growing volume and variety of data. Research data is a specialised knowledge resource that ensures the traceability of research results and leads to new insights through re-use. In line with good scientific practice, research data must be preserved in an appropriate manner throughout all phases of the data lifecycle and must be accessible to researchers and reproducible. Responsible research data management across the entire data lifecycle is therefore essential and is increasingly a prerequisite for securing third-party funding.

Various infrastructures and opportunities are required to support researchers in managing their digital research data. To this end, our team is actively committed to establishing and further developing infrastructures, standards and services in research data management. Together with partner institutions, we are working to make data accessible, reusable and FAIR. Below, we present a selection of our services and the projects currently underway.

Our services

  • Key points of contact for all enquiries regarding research data management
  • Advice on grant applications regarding the handling of research data
  • Support with drawing up data management plans
  • Training and continuing education on data management issues
  • Services from HERMES
  • Services from GesundFDM
  • Services from 4Memory

Our projects

Researchproject

LivArch

The challenges posed by ‘living archives’ for historical research, as illustrated by the documentation of the Russian war against Ukraine.
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Researchproject

HERMES

... establishes centres for learning, research and networking where data literacy is taught within the humanities and cultural studies.
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Researchproject

NFDI4Memory

... enhances digital skills in disciplines dealing with history by providing standards and tools for the sustainable management of research data.
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Researchproject

Healthy FDM

… strengthens research data management in the health and care sciences through a community platform and practical training courses.
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Researchproject

NFDI in Hesse

The h_da is the only university of applied sciences in Hesse to be actively involved in the NFDI4Memory consortium – with a focus on research data…
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Group members

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Prof. Dr. Stefan Schmunk

Dean

Information Science and Digital Libraries

Stefan Schmunk is Professor of Information and Library Science at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences. His teaching and research focus on...


digital research infrastructures, open science and research data, particularly in the humanities and cultural sciences. His focus is on sustainable strategies in research data management and on developing national and European initiatives to establish research infrastructures. He is Dean of the Media Department and Research Data Management Officer at h_da.

Debby Trzeciak

Research assistant and lecturer in the Information Science programme, cooperative doctoral programme at the Institute of Linguistics and...


Literary Studies at TU Darmstadt