FAIR AIMS - Automated IGSN Management System (FAIR AIMS) is a joint project of the Helmholtz Centres GFZ, AWI and HZB, which is funded by the Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration (HMC) from 2025-2027 as part of the HMC Project Cohort 2024. FAIR AIMS builds on the successful HMC project FAIR WISH, whose main output is the FAIR SAMPLES template.

FID GEO is a project that implements advanced information and publication services for the geoscientific community in Germany. Its focus is on the geosciences of the solid earth. FID GEO is funded by “Specialised Information Services Programme” of the German Research Foundation (DFG), which establishes a number of discipline-specific “Fachinformationsdienste (FID)” in Germany. FIDs supplement existing information infrastructures at universities and research institutions, providing additional services nationwide.

The Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration (HMC) is one of five platforms of the Helmholtz Incubator Information and Data Science. HMC promotes the qualitative enrichment of research results using metadata and implements this approach for the entire Helmholtz Association. In particular, its aim is to make all aspects of the research findings obtained within the Helmholtz Association findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable for the entire scientific community in accordance with the FAIR principles.

NFDI4Earth (i) connects scientists from Earth system research in national and international interdisciplinary networks, (ii) creates standardized regulations for the provision of quality-assured and easily integrated research data, (iii) integrates existing research data repositories and (iv) develops the next generation of data exchange and data analysis environments with the research community. NFDI4Earth forms the necessary basis for innovative and interdisciplinary research approaches, many of which also address pressing global challenges such as climate change, water scarcity, land use change, environmental pollution and natural hazards.

The Library was able to successfully acquire funds to support genuine Open Access publications as part of the DFG funding program "Open Access Publication Funding". These funds will be used to drive the transformation towards an open approach to handling scientific publications. In the period 2025-2027, GFZ scientists will be able to benefit from more financial support for publishing in genuine Open Access journals through the Open Access budget than was previously the case.

“International Center for Global Earth Models” (ICGEM) provides global Earth gravity field models and related data products to the international user community. The aim of the SAMDAT project is to extend and modernize the ICGEM service including the existing database and the integrated computation and visualization services and the integration of current and future high-resolution gravity field models in different formats.

The aim of the World Heat Flow Database Project is to develop a new research data infrastructure for the IHFC Global Heat Flow Database (IHFC) offering a one-stop shop for comprehensive information on heat-flow related data, publications, projects, and researchers. This new user-oriented web service will provide to the geoscientific community quality-proofed, up-to-date, well-documented, extended, enriched, and restructured heat-flow data. The project supports the Global Heat Flow Data Assessment Project. The new database will reflect the criteria of FAIR and OPEN data policy and will support the interoperability with other geoscientific data services (e.g., EPOS, NFDI4Earth).

As part of the FAIR WISH project, we are developing together with our partners: AWI and Hereon (1) discipline-specific and standardized IGSN metadata schemas/templates for different sample types in the Helmholtz Research Field Earth and Environment (FB EuU), which complement the core IGSN metadata and (2) workflows for the generation of machine-readable IGSN metadata starting from different stages of digitization of the sample description, both from structured tables (templates), as well as from databases and workflows for an automated registration of IGSNs.

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has been funding the re3data project “ (COREF)” since January 2020. A central goal of the re3data COREF (Community Driven Open Reference for Research Data Repositories) project was the further professionalization of re3data and the provision of reliable and adaptable descriptions of research data repositories. re3data provides core descriptions of the repositories that can be meaningfully referenced and cited by users and are permanently suitable for identification.

The Geo Data Node project aims to sustainably optimize data management at the GFZ. Over a period of two years, the BMBF-funded project will support the implementation of the guidelines on research data management recently adopted by the GFZ.

re3data - the registry of research data repositories - is a globally recognized catalog for research data repositories that currently indexes more than 3300 repositories, databases and portals. The publicly accessible service was developed as part of two projects funded by the German Research Foundation (2012-2016) and is used by researchers and services worldwide for research. Scientific communities, funding organizations, research institutions and services rely on the up-to-date and accurate descriptions and consider re3data a reliable source.

The DFG-funded project was aimed at supporting the transfer of research data from different research environments to digital long-term archives. The focus of the work was on optimizing the ingest process at the transfer interface between discipline-specific data producers and any long-term archive.

KOMFOR was planned as a link between research institutions, publishers, libraries and an existing archive network for data from earth and environmental research. The general goal was the sustainable improvement of data availability and quality.

The aim of the project was to develop a roadmap with recommendations for the establishment of a multidisciplinary research data infrastructure in Germany.

The project “Publication and citability of primary data” was funded by the DFG from 2003 to 2008. As part of the project, procedures were developed to publish digital research data on the Internet and make it citable (DOI).