Coscine (/ˈkəʊsaɪn/) stands for Collaborative Scientific Integration Environment and is a platform for your research data management, short RDM.
Coscine offers for your RDM:
- Storage – Access to free storage space (depending on organizational/project affiliation).
- Integration – Access to project-related data sources (for example research data storage, linked files, archived data)
- Collaboration – Access for all project members
- Metadata – Automatically linked to project data
- Individuality – Project-specific metadata can be created as application profiles
- Archiving – Archive research data in place
Thus, Coscine offers solutions for a sound RDM in the sense of good scientific practice, as required by the NRW University Law and research funding agencies. As an integration platform, Coscine provides centralized access to your project-level data sources (for example research data repositories, linked files, archived data). For archiving non-research data, please use the DigitalArchive.
Development
Coscine is developed as an open source project on GitLab . To support modern research data management, Coscine follows established W3C standards and uses future-oriented technologies. The integration of S3-based object storage and an advanced database architecture for metadata form the basis for storing research data and complying with FAIR Principles. Support for FAIR Digital Objects ensures that research data is sustainable and interoperable. In addition, Coscine can be integrated into the automation of local processes through the use of proven technologies such as REST API and ElasticSearch, and supports cross-source data searches.
The development of Coscine is financed by third-party funds from DH.NRW (Coscine.nrw), NFDI (including NFDI4ING, NFDI-MatWerk, FAIR DS) and other projects (e.g. AIMS), as well as from funding provided to RWTH Aachen University as a university of excellence.
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