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In the course of the adaptation of the membership and fee model by DataCite , GESIS founded the DARA Consortium at the end of 2020. The DARA Consortium organisations comprises currently 58 social and economic science data-holding institutions from Germany and abroad. GESIS is the leading Consortium Organisation and runs together with the ZBW the DOI Registration service da|ra. The Consortium uses …

This week (22-26 Feb), the very successful (more than 600 participants in total) and topic-rich (more than 13 sessions and three workshops) RDA-DE conference took place. The Director of the NFDI, York-Sure Vetter, had highlighted the da|ra service in his contribution regarding its importance for the production of FAIR data. We thank you for the positive feedback and look forward to further …

In the course of the adaptation of the membership and fee model by DataCite, GESIS founded the DARA Consortium at the end of 2020. The consortium now comprises 51 social and economic science data-holding institutions from Germany and abroad. GESIS is the leading Consortium Organisation and runs together with the ZBW the DOI Registration service da|ra. The Consortium uses 86 Prefixes and has …

Currently (22 to 26 February 2021), the RDA DE Conference 2021 is taking place as an online event. It is jointly organised by the RDA DE association and the Helmholtz Open Science Bureau. The data strategy of the Federal Government, the Data Use Act, but also very concrete questions of a national data infrastructure are discussed. In the presentation by the director of the NFDI (York …

On 25 November 2020 the DARA Consortium was founded. The Leibniz institutions GESIS and ZBW have been early members of DataCite, and the joint DOI registration service da|ra has been in operation since 2010. Even though the change of the membership model of DataCite GESIS and ZBW have decided to continue the service and set up the DARA Consortium, which was built from the former da|ra users. …