Open Science

Open Data

Open Data


What is Open Data?

Research Data is all data that is generated, used, processed and compiled (in a digital way) during the research process. The handling of research data is an essential part of the principles on safeguarding the good scientific practice and goes along with the whole research process from the first planning to the preservation, publication and/or deletion of data.

Open Data should be findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable data sets (FAIR principles) and are typically published in (discipline specific) repositories, where they are provided with suitable (discipline specific) meta data, a persistent identifier (e.g. DOI) as well as an open licence (e.g. Creative Commons). Open Data are reusable for any scientific and/or societal purpose without technical and financial barriers and thus promote intra- and interdisciplinary cooperation and are the basis of well-founded social, ecological and economic decisions.

What are the benefits for you?

  • Meeting the requirements of research funding agencies and research assessment criteria
  • Enabling the validation of your research results
  • Fostering free dissemination of your research results
  • Enabling well-founded decision making
  • Increasing trustworthiness and robustness of research

Requirements

Get familiar with:

  • FAIR and CARE principles
  • Research data management policies and guidelines of research institutions, scientific disciplines and research funding organisations
  • Suitable, non-proprietary and stable data formats
  • Documentation standards and discipline specific and/or generic metadata standards
  • Discipline specific, institutional and/or generic repositories and/or data archives
  • Open publication and licencing models
  • Legal issues, like data protection rights, copyright, usage and related rights

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