Jan Brase
Head of Research & Development
Göttingen State and University Library
Wolfram Horstmann
Director
Göttingen State and University Library
With Discuss Data the Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen and the Göttingen State and University Library are currently creating an interactive online platform for the discussion of research data and their quality assessment. The aim is to create a place of academic communication for the community-specific curation, annotation and discussion of research data. Discuss Data will serve as a layer between distributed repositories and scholars. For data storage and digital long-term preservation, it will be connected to the DARIAH-DE repository and, prospectively, the Humanities Data Centre services. Through cross-linkage with various external data sources, knowledge and debates regarding research data shall be collected interactively and made accessible to both the academic community and the interested public. The VRE (virtual research environment) will thereby contribute to the creation of a project-independent, transregional and sustainable information infrastructure. The novelty of the project lies in the approach to enable active discussions on research data as a collective procedure in an accessible web-based infrastructure.