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Coscine - Strong Partner for your Research Data Management

Coscine - Strong Partner for your Research Data Management

Coscine (/ˈkəʊsaɪn/) stands for Collaborative Scientific Integration Environment and is a platform for your (research) data management (RDM).

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Archiving

With Coscine, research data can be archived for 10 years on the Research Data Storage (RDS) according to the good scientific practice.
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Collaboration

A major goal of Coscine is to facilitate collaboration among researchers, both within and across research groups.
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Community

Coscine is already used by a large number of institutes and in numerous research projects.
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Data security

Guaranteeing the security of your data is a fundamental pillar of Coscine and the technical realization has long been part of the core business at the IT Center of RWTH Aachen University.
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Development & Funding

Coscine is developed at the IT Center of RWTH Aachen University.
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Governance

The service provision and further development of Coscine takes place at the IT Center of RWTH Aachen University.
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Implementing the FAIR Principles with Coscine

Scientific integrity forms the basis of trustworthy science. Researchers have a great responsibility to meet these requirements in terms of good scientific practice 1 and the FAIR principles 2, which are also anchored in the Higher Education Act of NRW 3.
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Metadata

Metadata are the key to describing research data and making it reusable.
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Mission Statement

The mission of Coscine is to provide a generic platform for German researchers and their collaboration partners to access storage resources, jointly work on datasets online in research projects, and retain datasets for up to ten years after the end of the project.
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Persistent Identifier

For each project and resource, Coscine assigns a Persistent Identifier (PID).
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Research Data Management

Coscine (/ˈkəʊsaɪn/) stands for Collaborative Scientific Integration Environment and is a platform for your (research) data management (RDM).
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Research Project

In Coscine, the research project is the overarching connecting element between the stored or linked research data.
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Resources

The linked IT services in a project are called resources in Coscine.
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Standards & Technologies

To support modern research data management, Coscine relies on established standards and forward-looking technologies.
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Support Structures

RDM staff and specialists from DH.NRW universities are trained and supported by the Coscine team in various ways.

Partners

Partner Project
Coscine.nrw
Partner Project
NHR4CES
Partner Project
IAM4NFDI
Partner Project
FAIR-IMPACT
Partner Project
AIMS
Partner Project
NFDI4Ing
Partner Project
NFDIMatWerk
Network
fdm.nrw
Network
NHR
Maintainer
IT Center - RWTH Aachen University
Funding
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Funding
Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen
Funding
Digitale Hochschule NRW