Data Management: The Data Life Cycle

The scientific site of Kiel provides support for projects with data management requirements due to project size or interdisciplinarity. This infrastructure is the Kiel Data Management Infrastructure (KDMI) and was initially created by SFB574, SFB754, Excellence Cluster ‘The Future Ocean‘ and the GEOMAR | Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel. To achieve public data availability from publicly funded projects by the end of the funding period it is necessary to initiate the data acquisition during the data creation process. Accordingly the KDMI uses a three level approach to achieve this goal in SOPRAN III. Data management is al- ready involvedin the planning of expeditions or experiments. The resulting schedule for data files can be used by the project coordinationto increase the efficeny of data sharing within SOPRAN III. The scientists provide files with basic metainformation, which are available within the virtual research environment as soon as possible to all project members. Final data will be transferred to PANGAEA for long term availability when the data are analysed and interpreted in a scientific publication or by the end of SOPRAN III. The Kiel Data Management Team offers a portal for all GEOMAR and University Kiel marine projects. This portal will be used in SOPRAN III in combination with PANGAEA to fulfill the project’s data management requirements and to enhance the data sharing within SOPRAN III by a file sharing environment for preliminary data not yet suitable for PANGAEA

Ein zweites Standbein für die Bibliothek OceanRep - das Institutional Repository des GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrums für Ozeanforschung Kiel

Bis zum Jahr 2010 wurden die Publikationen des damaligen Leibniz-Instituts für Meereswissenschaften (IFM-GEOMAR) im UNIVIS, dem Informationssystem der Universität Kiel, nachgewiesen. UNIVIS, dessen eigentliche Aufgabe ein Raumund Personenverzeichnis war, verfügte über einige Grundfunktionen (Suchbarkeit nach Autoren und Schlagworten, Generierung von Listen). Es gab aber keine Möglichkeit, einen öffentlichen und mit den Urheberrechten der Verlage konformen Zugang zu elektronischen Fassungen der hauseigenen Publikationen zu gewähren. Eine Weiterentwicklung des bisherigen Systems wäre zwar grundsätzlich möglich gewesen, hätte aber erhebliche personelle Ressourcen erfordert

Digistylus - An Online Information System For Palaeography Teaching and Research

This paper starts by describing the experiences the authors recently had with online information systems for teaching and research in palaeography. The study also considers the differences in the students' access to the site "Teaching Materials for Latin Palaeography" when they attended the palaeography courses, as it was usually used in the lectures by one of the authors. With the increase in the quantity of plates (reproducing pages or parts of them from medieval manuscripts) and texts (concerning the analysis of the writing styles, the cataloguing, the history of manuscripts, the codicology and other important topics in the palaeography's scientific debate), it became clear that there was a difference in the way students approached those materials: when students first used the systems in the academic year 2001/2002, they read all the documents and used all the plates; more recently, with the quantity of materials on the site considerably increased, the students wait for the professor's suggestions and evidence uncertainties and difficulties when autonomously looking for a document or a plate. As a consequence, the online information system Digistylus has been planned and is going to be created for the management of the data in the site "Teaching Materials". The main consequence of the above observations has been the detection of a new knowledge construction paradigm and the development of new research procedures in palaeography