Welcome to KomFor
 
                  The Centre of Competence for Research Data in the Earth and Environmental Sciences


            KOMFOR is proposed to link between research institutions, publishers, libraries, and already existing archive networks for data in the earth and
environmental sciences with special emphasis on geological disciplines. Its aim is to improve the availability and quality of data. The way to achieve this is by building sustainable and reliable ways for data publications in line with quality standards in scientific publishing. KOMFOR provides access to data publishing resources for projects, institutes, research groups, and individual researchers, spanning the entire life-cycle of research data. Over the course of the project KOMFOR will provide resources for data management plans, data acquisition, quality assurance, registration of data publications, and long-term archiving of research data.
 
            The project is funded by the German Research Foundation, Scientific Library Services and Information Systems (LIS). It is based ob precursor work from the project "Publication and Citation of Primary Scientific Data" (STD-DOI), which was also funded by the German Research Foundation.

                      

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Recent Blog Articles

  • Reward system for research data required that incorporates data metrics The report "The Value of Research Data - Metrics for datasets from a cultural and technical point of view" recommends that data sharing and data publication should be more broadly adopted ...
    Posted Apr 15, 2013, 3:24 AM by Johanna Schietke
  • DFG approves new funding programme for research data infrastructures The Joint Committee of Germany's largest research funding organisation has decided to launch a new funding programme. Its purpose is to ensure that quality-assured research data, which is ...
    Posted Apr 2, 2013, 5:55 AM by Johanna Schietke
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