Project INF - SFB 1270 ELAINE - University of Rostock

INF - Infrastructure Support Project

Summary of the work programme

The information infrastructure project supports the management of research data, software, and simulation models. In doing so, we promote open and reproducible science. In addition to a training and qualification program, individual consultations and training sessions are offered in close collaboration with other institutions and CRCs. Established services of the developed virtual research environment are transferred to the institutional infrastructure to ensure long-term availability. Specific research topics include the development of metadata standards for data and workflow provenance, and assessing the environmental impacts of research activities.

Virtual Research Environment

The virtual research environment of the CRC 1270 ELAINE enables the web-based collaboration of the involved researchers during the entire research process, i.e. starting at the research hypothesis and ending at the publication of the research results. This improves the reproducibility and the traceability of the scientific investigations by providing central mechanisms for storage, exchange and documentation of research data and software. For this purpose specialised services are employed and integrated into each other.

Central research aspects are:
1.) Collaboration in multiple disciplinary research projects in virtual research environments
2.) Traceability of research processes and Quality assurance of research data by standardized documentation and automatic processed
3.) Semantic documentation of research data and processes by natural language processing