Work programme of the VerbundFDB

To address the multidisciplinarity and scope of empirical educational research in Germany, a networked research data infrastructure is needed that brings together the distributed services of various research data centres (RDC) and provides researchers with demand-oriented and user-friendly services. The portal forschungsdaten-bildung.de offers researchers the opportunity to find data for their upcoming research projects, to share data from completed projects and to inform about the diverse topics of research data management.

In the current expansion phase (10/2019-12/2021), the project partners DIPF | Leibniz-Institut for Research and Information in Education  , GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences   and the Institute for Educational Quality Improvement (IQB)   in cooperation with other research data centres (RDCs) are planning to

 further develop the services of archiving and making available research data and literature,

 expand the information, consulting and training programme, and

 to further promote and shape the networking of the research data infrastructure.

In its work, the VerbundFDB supports a vision of open data, respecting data protection and ethical obligations towards those affected and the claims of data producers.

letzte Änderung: 25.06.2020

Archiving and provision of research data

The VerbundFDB provides a central infrastructure for archiving and searching research data and survey instruments for researchers in all related areas of educational research. In the current phase, the existing services are being further developed and complemented.

Visibility of reseach data in the portal

The automated upload of metadata (data references) in the portal forschungsdaten-bildung.de is planned to increase the visibility of distributed archived research data. For this purpose, three ways of uploading are realized: Entry by the single RDC into the central database, automated metadata import from da|ra (harvesting) and exchange via a bilateral interface to individual data centres.

Outputs:

• core set and daIra harvesting within the VerbundFDB (fdbinfo Nr. 7, 2019, only available in German)
•  metadata registry for the joint processing of metadata and controlled vocabularies (only available in German) (2019)
• development of an interface together with DZHW     and FD-LEX     (2021)

Further work packages:

• linking of research data and literature (contact person: Nadeshda Jung    )
• requirements analysis for archiving of content analytical data (contact person: Nadeshda Jung    , DIPF)
• requirements analysis for the archiving of log files (contact persons: Benjamin Becker   , IQB, Sonja Bayer    , DIPF)
• creation of campus files (contact persons: Lisa Pegelow    and Claudia Neuendorf    , IQB)

Information, consulting and training services for research data management

The aim is to strengthen the competencies of researchers in the field of research data management. To this end, the existing services will be continued and expanded (see https://www.forschungsdaten-bildung.de/informieren):

• two-day workshops (once a year) and webinars (twice a year)
• consulting services and lectures by invitation
• diversified offers and materials for the target group on the website

To find out more about our offer, please click here!

Promoting and shaping the networking of research data infastructure

The further networking and cooperation of research data centres within the field of educational research is a major goal of the VerbundFDB. The network was initiated in the first expansion phase of the VerbundFDB (2016-2019).

Further information on the networking