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IZKF Core Unit RDM

Resources and Links

Planning your RDM

Services of the cRDM

  1. Assessment of your needs.
  2. Help with creating data management plans.
  3. Personalized advice on organization, compliance and best practices for effective research data management.
  4. Assistance with managing, securing, and sharing data.

Needs assessment

Please contact us.
For your group members: RDM Survey

Data management plans (DMP)

  • Early engagement recommended for project-specific solutions.
  • Funder requirements for data publication.
  • Use of public DMPs, e.g. NFDI-Plants
  • RDM checklist

Creation of research data

Creating Metadata and Metadata Standards

Documenting research

Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELNs) such as eLabFTW and Labfolder are available at the Information Technology Centre for transparent and traceable research documentation

Labfolder usage guide

High performance computing

For more information click here.


Storage and sharing of research data

Cloud storage solutions

for collaborative work and data sharing

For more information click here.

CoreUnitRDM-Cloud tutorial

Cloud-based RDM software

For more information click here.

Sharing of patient data (UKW)

FEX (provided by SMI)

Access for collaboration partners from external Institutes can be requested.

Sensitive data must be shared with a secure password and link with limited expiration date. Password and link have to be shared via different comunication tools.

FEX usage guide


Publishing and archiving research data

Solutions from the JMU

  • WueData is the institutional research data repository of the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg for publishing data according to FAIR principles
  • The Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg Archive server for long-term data storage not actively used in research

Scientific data repositories

For more information click here.

Publishing code

  • GitHub  for hosting and sharing code repositories using Git
  • GitLab as a web-based Git repository manager
  • Bitbucket for unlimited private repositories with a small team
  • SourceForge for control and manage free and open-source software projects

For more information click here.