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Digital Information Infrastructures
Transparency and openness: new infrastructures for digital resources in research
The research group “Digital Information Infrastructures” headed by Professor Klaus Tochtermann addresses the core issue of how research data infrastructures can be developed, networked, and operated in ways that are trustworthy, transdisciplinary, compliant with data protection laws, and involve all relevant stakeholders?
The research group puts its focus on designing, building, and operating federated infrastructures for research data management. The work takes place within the framework of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) in Germany and of the corresponding effort at the European level, the “European Open Science Cloud”. Creating such interoperable infrastructures will improve the transparency about existing research data in terms of Open Science and access to such scientific information will be easier.
DID YOU KNOW?
According to a study published by Statista in 2023, the volume of digital data produced and replicated worldwide will more than double, from 126 Zettabyte in 2023 to 284 Zettabyte in 2027. One Zettabyte is equivalent to almost 13,000 million 4K videos.
Digital information infrastructures for efficient research data management in economics
The research group “Digital Information Infrastructures” is based on a professorship at the Faculty of Engineering at Kiel University and sees itself as an important infrastructure partner for economics. It aims to increase the findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability of research data.
For this, the team applies internationally accepted standards, such as DataCite for describing research data, and develops them further. The computer scientists study different approaches for the acquisition of research data. Research data can be “harvested” from websites on the internet, for example, enriched with descriptive information, and deposited in a data store.
For such data stores, generic software packages are adapted to the requirements of a user group and operated in cloud environments, preferably under an open licence. This work always takes place in cooperation with national and international communities and infrastructure partners.
“What fascinates me about my research field is the opportunity to enlarge the borders of knowledge management in the digital sphere and to fundamentally change the way we share and use scientific information. The development of modern, federated, and digital information infrastructures contributes to the opening up of new horizons for collaboration and innovation in science.”
Prof. Dr. Klaus Tochtermann
Head of the research group “Digital Information Infrastructures”
Foto: Sven Wied
Open Science AT ZBW
Research groups and their current topical focus
Digital Information Infrastructures
Transparency and openness: new infrastructures for digital resources in research
Information Profiling and Retrieval
Language models and knowledge graphs are the focus of ZBW research
Web Science
Studying the impact and relevance of scientific publications
Digital Economics
Science about science: studying research texts and processes
Engagement
Science policy consulting at the ZBW
The developments associated with Open Science take place at many levels of the science system. As a Leibniz institution, it is a matter of concern for the ZBW to see its own experiences and research results inform the debate in science policy bodies at the national, European and international level.
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