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. The rights and oblig­a­tions of the part­ners are laid down in a Con­sor­tium Agree­ment.

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.

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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