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Research data

Research data is created during the planning, implementation and documentation of research projects. It is growing increasingly important as the basis for scientific work. The Academy makes the data generated by its research projects freely available for permanent use, in accordance with the FAIR principles.

FAIR principles

The FAIR principles ensure sustainable research data management. Data and metadata are processed and stored in such a way that they are easily accessible and reusable by others (www.go-fair.org/fair-principles/). FAIR stands for Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable. The FAIR principles are concerned with infrastructure and services as well as data storage and they cover the technical, legal and ethical aspects of data management.

Data provision  

The Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities provides research data in both human-readable and machine-readable form. Since – unlike in publications – the data is available in different forms and formats, they are made accessible in customised user interfaces. Electronic access is possible either via a specific interface or the Academy’s gitlab data repository.

Below is a list of popular Academy data collections:

As the example of dialect data shows, research data can be the end results of scientific research, as well as starting points and intermediate stages. Since the Academy publishes both types of research data, it can guarantee the reproducibility of its research on the one hand and ensure that the findings can be reused as widely as possible on the other.

Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur (National Research Data Infrastructure or NFDI)

The Academy and the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) were involved in setting up the Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur (National Research Data Infrastructure or NFDI), a consortium established in 2020 to make scientific and research data available, interconnected and permanently accessible. As a member of the NFDI e. V. association, the Academy is a participant in several NFDI consortia, including all of those dedicated to the humanities: NFDI4Memory, NFDI4Culture, NFDI4Objects and NFDI4Text+.