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Open Data and central data management

Central storage of research data is available at ZALF since 2000. The central data management department runs stores research data such as measurement and survey data, runs  the research information system with organisational data and the laboratory booking system, as well as providing provides  technical support for intranet and websites. It supports scientists with following Services services  concerning research data:

  • planning their research by giving advice on research data management and searching data 
  • accessing data by providing centrally stored data and procuring geo data  
  • storage by providing centrally managed databases 
  • management of internationally registered Open Data on the open institutional repository Open Research Data (href="http://www.open-research-data.de" target="_blank">http://www.open-research-data.de). href="http://www.open-research-data.de">http://www.open-research-data.de). 
Aspects of open data management at ZALF are the data catalogue and the open repository. The data catalogue ideally contains all metadata of information that is recorded by or is available for ZALF employees. It also contains metadata of purchased third party data. It is a tool for data discovery at ZALF and avoids redundant purchase and recording of data.  
Since 2010, ZALF is publication agent as well as data centre and registers datasets in cooperation with the international organisation DataCite with digital object identifiers (DOI). Datasets with adequate and sufficient metadata are published on the open repository ZALF Open Research Data where they can be accessed publicly. It is also listed in the Registry of Research Data Repositories (www.re3data.org). Open Research Data has been included in the Thomson Reuters Data Citation Index in 2015. This means, datasets can be found easier and if cited in articles, the registration of datasets might gain more value in the future.  
The data management department and the publication management encourage scientists to publish articles in data journals. Authors can directly refer to registered publicly accessible datasets on Open Research Data. In that sense, ZALF expects to make a contribution to give research data more importance within the scientific community. A list of data journals is offered by the Foster project (Foster, 2015).