REFODAT
REFODAT is a research data repository in Thuringia for the publication and registration of research data generated by, or in collaboration with, researchers at a Thuringian higher education institution.
The service was developed by the Thuringian Competence Network for Research Data Management (TKFDM), the Thuringian Library Service Centre (BSC) and the IT Centre for Thuringian Universities (HS-ITZ), and was funded as part of the Strategy for Digitalisation in Higher Education (2021–2025). Its long-term operation is ensured by the participating organisations.
- Technical operation: HS-ITZ (URZ Jena)
- Software development: ThULB
- Editorial support: TKFDM (FDM contact points at FSU, UEF, BUW, TUI)
- First-level support: TKFDM
Application scenarios include:
- Publication of research data, including DOI assignment
- Enrichment of research data with metadata (via form submission and in individual README files)
- Quality control of metadata through the editorial process
- Registration of datasets already published in other research data repositories
- Searching the dataset
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You can search the database without logging in.
Publishing and registration require you to log in.
This is done via the DFN authentication service:
Shibboleth/DFN-AAILogged-in users can access closed-access datasets via tokens.
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Please note:
- the Terms of Use,
- the guidelines for publication and
- the privacy policy.
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- Permanent storage of published data for at least 10 years
- Blocking of data records that breach the terms of use
- Permanent storage of metadata even beyond the lifespan of the associated data record
- Deletion of data records that have remained unprocessed and unpublished for over 1 year
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The University Computing Centre at Friedrich Schiller University Jena is responsible for backing up the data and metadata published on REFODAT and for restoring them in the event of an emergency.
Unpublished datasets that are deleted prior to publication CANNOT be restored. -
First-level support is provided by the TKFDM
- refodat@uni-jena.de, +49 3641 946340
Users are encouraged to report bugs and submit feature requests through the FSU Jena Service Desk or the TKFDM (see the email address above).
The technical contact (software) is ThULB
- s.hermann@uni-jena.de, +49 3641 9404022
- oleksiy.levshyn@uni-jena.de, +49 3641 9404022