4TU.ResearchData is a research infra­struc­ture, com­mu­ni­ty and train­ing provider whose mis­sion is to enable researchers from sci­ence, engi­neer­ing and design dis­ci­plines to make a glob­al impact with research data and soft­ware. 

Our main ser­vice is a trust­ed dig­i­tal repos­i­to­ry which sup­ports Find­able, Acces­si­ble, Inter­op­er­a­ble and Reusable (FAIR) data and soft­ware by offer­ing cura­tion, shar­ing, long-term access and preser­va­tion. The infra­struc­ture on which the repos­i­to­ry runs is avail­able as Free and Open Source soft­ware, called Dje­huty. The name Dje­huty is derived from an ancient Egypt­ian king who is con­sid­ered the inven­tor of writ­ing. Our vision is to co-devel­op this soft­ware with our 4TU.ResearchData com­mu­ni­ty of researchers and research sup­port pro­fes­sion­als, such as research soft­ware engi­neers and data man­agers. The code­base is avail­able here.

4TU.ResearchData is led by the 4TU.ResearchData Con­sor­tium, which con­sists of Delft Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy, Eind­hoven Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy, Uni­ver­si­ty of Twente and Wagenin­gen Uni­ver­si­ty & Research.

4TU.ResearchData is host­ed and man­aged by the TU Delft Library, where datasets are local­ly stored on TU Delft servers, and is gov­erned by TU Delft’s legal state­ments. 4TU.ResearchData staff is respon­si­ble for man­ag­ing and main­tain­ing the data repos­i­to­ry, includ­ing its preser­va­tion pol­i­cy to guar­an­tee long-term usabil­i­ty of the data it holds.

Become a member

The 4TU.ResearchData con­sor­tium is open to organ­i­sa­tions that share our mis­sion and are will­ing to make an active con­tri­bu­tion to it. As a mem­ber of 4TU.ResearchData:

• You will take part in Exec­u­tive Board meet­ings and Oper­a­tional Board meet­ings, which makes you share in the knowl­edge and influ­ence on the devel­op­ment of our ser­vices and the strat­e­gy and its imple­men­ta­tion by 4TU.ResearchData.
• You are rep­re­sent­ed in the coop­er­a­tions and con­sul­ta­tive com­mit­tees where 4TU.ResearchData engages in.
• You will receive dis­count­ed rates and get access to ser­vices that are exclu­sive to con­sor­tium mem­bers.

Our Mem­ber­ship Prospec­tus pro­vides an overview of the dif­fer­ent pos­si­ble ser­vice lev­els and their asso­ci­at­ed ser­vices.
As a 4TU.ResearchData mem­ber you are mak­ing a con­tri­bu­tion to secur­ing access to tech­ni­cal sci­en­tif­ic research data through your com­mit­ment to the Board and the local front office and with finan­cial sup­port from the shared back- and front office. The rights and oblig­a­tions of the mem­bers are laid down in a Con­sor­tium Agree­ment. Are you inter­est­ed in a pos­si­ble 4TU.ResearchData mem­ber­ship or do you have ques­tions about it? Please con­tact 4TU.ResearchData.

Executive Board

4TU.ResearchData is over­seen by the Exec­u­tive Board, but the 4TU.ResearchData oper­a­tions are the respon­si­bil­i­ty of the 4TU.ResearchData Direc­tor. The mem­bers of the Exec­u­tive Board are:

• Daniel Bangert, Direc­tor of 4TU.ResearchData, TU Delft Library
• Alas­tair Dun­ning, Head of Research Ser­vices, TU Delft Library
• Wil­jan Put­ten­stein, Head of Depart­ment Archive & Doc­u­ment Man­age­ment / Embed­ded Infor­ma­tion Ser­vices, Uni­ver­si­ty of Twente
• San­dor Schmik­li, Area Lead Research, Eind­hoven Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy
• Shau­na Ní Fhlait­hear­ta, Coor­di­na­tor Data Man­age­ment, Wagenin­gen Uni­ver­si­ty & Research Library
• Mar­jolein Dohmen-Janssen, 4TU.Federation Sec­re­tary, Uni­ver­si­ty of Twente

Operational Board

Where the Exec­u­tive Board sets the over­all direc­tion and vision for 4TU.ResearchData, the Oper­a­tional Board is over­see­ing the oper­a­tional aspects ensur­ing that the dai­ly oper­a­tions align with the strate­gic goals.

The Oper­a­tional Board pro­vides review, advice, and feed­back on the ser­vices and poli­cies of 4TU.ResearchData and meet reg­u­lar­ly. See the Terms of Ref­er­ence here.

CORETRUSTSEAL & TRUST PRINCIPLES

4TU.ResearchData has been award­ed the CoreTrust­Seal, a cer­ti­fi­ca­tion that pro­motes sus­tain­able and trust­wor­thy data infra­struc­tures by set­ting out require­ments for trust­ed data repos­i­to­ries. Read more infor­ma­tion about the cer­ti­fi­ca­tion.

4TU.ResearchData has endorsed “The TRUST Prin­ci­ples for dig­i­tal repos­i­to­ries”. These prin­ci­ples, where ‘TRUST’ is the acronym for Trans­paren­cy, Respon­si­bil­i­ty, User Focus, Sus­tain­abil­i­ty, and Tech­nol­o­gy, offer guid­ance for main­tain­ing the trust­wor­thi­ness of dig­i­tal repos­i­to­ries, espe­cial­ly those respon­si­ble for the stew­ard­ship of research data. Please find more infor­ma­tion here.

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