Overview Services

Show that your institution is a good home for good data.

• Accreditation by the RatSWD
• Monitoring
• Guidance CoreTrustSeal

KonsortSWD trains and advises data centres. With tools and materials, we support RDCs in providing their high-quality data

• Secure data access point network – RDCnet
• RDM Compas – Developing and exchanging professional research data management skills
• Contract templates
• Services for qualitative data (QualidataNet)
• RDM project grants
• Data discoverability consulting
• PID Service for data elements below the study level
• CODI-Automated Coding of Open Responses
• Open data format
• Open APIs for standardised data access
• Harmonized Variables

KonsortSWD promotes cooperation between the RDCs

• FDI Committee
• Secure data access point network – RDCnet
• VerbundFDB (German Network of Educational Research Data)
• Services for qualitative data (QualidataNet)
• Data usage exchange forum – Forum4MICA

Helpful information on planning and recommendations for setting up a research data centre

• Establishment of a new RDC

The 39 research data centres (RDCs) accredited by the German Data Forum (RatSWD) offer science and research flexible and comprehensive access to sensitive data.

• All data centres

Various providers offer data for the social, behavioural, educational and economic sciences. Find out which data is available for your research here.

• Search for data offered by the RDCs
• Search data in subject-specific repositories
• Way forward RDC Motor Performance

We provide individual support and advice on all services and tools offered via KonsortSWD and present further consulting services.

• KonsortSWD-Helpdesk
• Best Practices for Research Ethics
• Data usage exchange forum – Forum4MICA
• Services for qualitative data (QualidataNet)

KonsortSWD helps you learn and teach about research data management and research ethics.

• Teaching and training

You are planning your own data collection. These offers support you in the construction of questionnaires and the coding of open data.

• CODI – Automated Coding of Open Responses
• Harmonized Variables
• Data infrastructures for the research of societal crisis phenomena
• New Options for Access to Firm Data
• Services for qualitative data (QualidataNet)

You want to exchange data or process text data. We have the right offers for you.

• Linking Textual Data
• CODI – Automated Coding of Open Responses
• Open data format

Are you preparing your own research project? We take you by the hand in planning the data management.

• Stamp – Standardized Data Management Plan for Educational Research
• ForSynData

Do you have your own data that others should be able to find and use for their own research? These offers from our partners support you with archiving.

• Archiving at RDCs and in Repositories
• RDM project grands
• Way forward RDC Motor Performance

The complaints office serves to address data provision-related problems between data users and the RDCs.

• Complaints Office

• Advice for politics
• Statements & Position Papers

An overview of our most important topics

• Research Data Act
• Access to research data
• Research data management
• Data protection
• Research on societal crises
• Research ethics