Research data

Research data include data collected while conducting research projects (secondary data) and data produced as the findings of the projects (primary data). The Academy makes the research data generated by its long-term basic research projects freely available for permanent use, in accordance with the FAIR principles.

FAIR principles

The FAIR principles are rules to ensure sustainable research data management. The objective is to process and store data and the associated metadata in such a way that they are easily accessible and reusable by others (www.go-fair.org/fair-principles/). FAIR stands for Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable.

Data provision 

The Academy’s humanities research data are provided in both human-readable and machine-readable formats. Electronic access is possible either via an interface or the Academy’s gitlab data repository möglich.

Below is a list of popular Academy data collections:

• Corpus of Baroque Ceiling Painting in Germany
• Bayerns Dialekte Online (BDO)
• Lexhelfer Bavarian, Lexhelfer Franconian und Lexhelfer Schwabian
  (primary research data on BDO)
• The Austrian Bible Translator
• Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages

As the above example of dialect data shows, research data can be the end results of scientific research, provided that they are available in machine-readable form. Such data can also be starting points for and intermediate stages of the research, however, if they are incorporated into the research work.

Since the Academy publishes both primary data (the end results of research) and secondary data (the intermediate stages of research, which provide evidence to confirm the findings and are therefore relevant for the context of justification), it can guarantee the reproducibility of its research and ensures that the findings can be reused as widely as possible in other contexts.