eResearch Organisations

Institutions, organisations and initiatives worldwide provide support or expert knowledge on eResearch topics. The following list includes some of our partner organisations and a selection of relevant international institutions, organisations and initiatives.

Research Data Management

• Australia Research Data Commons (ARDC), AUS: Provides extensive information resources. The Australian National Data Service (ANDS) is part of the Australian Research Data Commons.
• Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS), NL: “Promotes sustained access to digital research data files and encourages researchers to archive and reuse data.”
• Digital Curation Centre (DCC), UK: “World-leading centre of expertise in digital information curation.”
• Data Documentation Initiative (DDI): International standard for describing statistical and social science data.
• EUDAT: Collaborative Pan-European infrastructure providing “research data services, expertise and technology solutions.”
• Forschungsdaten.info, DE: German information platform for digital research data management.
• Forschungsdaten.org: A German wiki collecting information about (digital) research data management.
• JISC, UK: “Membership organisation providing digital solutions for UK education and research.”
• Research Data Alliance (RDA): “Aims to build social and technical bridges that enable open sharing and re-use of data.”
• Research Data Oxford, UK: “Helps, guides and coordinates support in research data management for researchers.”

Persistent Identification

• DataCite: Non-profit organisation supporting researchers, data centres and journal publisher with the handling of research data. Leading global provider of DOIs for research data.
• Data Observation Network for Earth (DataONE): Cyberinfrastructure for environmental sciences.
• ePIC: Consortium providing Persistent Identifiers for eResearch.
• ORCID: Membership organisation providing researchers with an individual persistent digital identifier that distinguishes them from every other researcher.

Digital Preservation

• Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS), NL: “Promotes sustained access to digital research data files and encourages researchers to archive and reuse data.”
• Digital Curation Centre (DCC), UK: “World-leading centre of expertise in digital information curation.”
• nestor, DE: German competence network for digital preservation.
• OpenAIRE: Network of Open Access repositories, archives and journals that support Open Access policies.
• UK Data Archive, UK: “Internationally acknowledged centre of expertise in acquiring, curating and providing access to social science and humanities data.”

E-Learning

• EDINA, UK: “World-class centre for digital expertise” that “delivers online services and tools to benefit students, teachers and researchers in UK Higher and Further Education and beyond.”
• EUDAT: Collaborative Pan-European infrastructure providing “research data services, expertise and technology solutions.”
• FOSTER: Organisation to Facilitate Open Science Learning for European Research.
• Hochschulforum Digitalisierung, DE: National Expert Forum on the Digital Future of Higher Education.

Digital Humanities

• CLARIN-D, DE: German research infrastructure for Humanities and Social Sciences.
• DARIAH-DE, DE: German Digital research infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities.
• DARIAH-ERIC: European Digital research infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities.
• Göttingen Center for Digital Humanities (GCDH), DE: Cross-faculty institution of Göttingen University that coordinates, carries out and further develops activities in the field of Digital Humanities.

(Inter)national Initiatives

• Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), AUS: “Cohesive collection of research resources from all research institutions, to make better use of Australia’s research data outputs”. Provides extensive information resources.
• Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS), NL: “Promotes sustained access to digital research data files and encourages researchers to archive and reuse data.”
• Deutsche Initiative für Netzwerkinformationen e.V. (DINI), DE: German competence centre for information infrastructures (in German).
• Directory of European research infrastructures: Lists research infrastructures in European countries.
• E-Infrastructures Austria, A: Nationwide project to coordinate the establishment and development of repository infrastructures.
• Rat für Sozial- und WirtschaftsDaten (RatSWD), DE: German Data Forum’s goal is to improve the exchange between users of research data and producers of research data especially in the social, behavioral, and economic sciences.
• Rat für Informationsinfrastrukturen (RfII), DE: Supports “the digital transition in science through the National Digital Agenda.”
• RIsources, DE: A portal about “scientific research infrastructures which provides researchers with resource and services for planning and implementing research projects” operated by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

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