Research Data Service for East European Studies (OstData)

OstData旨在为东欧研究领域的研究数据提供中央服务。它将由在该领域具有丰富经验的五个德国研究机构建立。OstData被认为是一个具有模块化互连架构的网络，包括一个中央搜索平台，该平台将允许研究数据的存储，存档和出版以及同行学者的定位，重用和引用。OstData还包括为科学界提供指导和咨询服务。OstData面临的主要挑战是数据管理、维护和获取在差异很大的体制条件下产生的研究数据。因此，OstData的结构将结合联合收割机的数据管理、保存和质量控制的集中和分散模式。此外，OstData将提供一个基于具体元数据的中央搜索索引，该索引将提供适合研究数据特殊性质的复杂搜索选项。OstData将通过将元数据（以及可能的全文）整合到国际搜索工具和应用程序中，提高德国东欧研究的国际知名度。为了使新的基础设施得到德国各地学者和科学机构的认可和使用，协助研究数据管理发展的具体支持措施在该项目中发挥了重要作用。

OstData is designed as a central service for research data in the field of East European Studies. It is to be established by five German Research Institutions with considerable experience in the area. OstData is conceived as a network with a modular interconnected architecture including a central search platform which will allow depositing, archiving and publication of research data as well as their locating, reusage and citation by fellow scholars. OstData also comprises guidance and counselling services for the scientific community. The main challenges of OstData are data curation, maintenance and accessibility of research data generated under strongly diverging institutional conditions. Accordingly, OstData’s structure will combine centralized and decentralized models of data management, preservation and quality control. Furthermore, OstData will offer a central search index based on specific metadata which will provide sophisticated search options appropriate to the special character of research data. OstData will increase the international visibility of German research on Eastern Europe by integrating the metadata (and where possible full texts) into international search tools and applications.In order for the new infrastructure to be acknowledged and used by scholars and scientific insti-tutions throughout Germany, specific supporting measures to assist the development of research data management play an important role in the project.