University of Tübingen Community Policy

Scope

The scope of the policy covers the usage of research data from small or individual projects with respect to the University of Tübingen. The community is intended for data generated by research activities conducted by eligible depositors within the University, which includes individual researchers amd research groups affiliated with the university. This community aims to serve as a generic hub for research data within the University of Tübingen.

Research Data

This community mainly accepts datasets that have reached the end of the research data lifecycle and are considered worthy of archiving and publication. In addition, however, datasets may also be accepted that originate from earlier phases of the lifecycle.

Data Providers

Acceptable data providers for this community include researchers affiliated with the University of Tübingen, as well as individually invited researchers from outside.

Data Curation

Prior to archiving and publishing datasets in this community, they will go through a curation process. Data curators are members of the university's Digital Humanities Center as the hosting organization of the reposository. These individuals are responsible for deciding on publication and archiving.

Data Volume

A limited amount of 1 TB storage for research data is available to this community. The maximum amount (quota) of data per data provider is 100 GB by default.

Data Quality

Data providers must agree to the data repository's terms of service and provide relevant, accurate and complete data and metadata to this community. For all research datasets provided, additional metadata must be made available indicating the quality aspects of the research data.

Languages

The community accepts data records in any language, but metadata must be provided in english to ensure that the data is easily discoverable and accessible to researchers worldwide.

Reuse of data

Depositors must provide a license for their uploaded data, allowing for reuse and redistribution of the data. This community recommends the use of Creative Commons licenses, which are widely recognized and accepted in the research community.

Community Membership and Access to Data Objects

This community doe not apply the concept of membership. The visibility rules set by the data provider apply, including data restriction and embargo.

Access Restrictions

Data providers may request an embargo period for their deposited data files with a maximum duration of 1 year. During the embargo period, data files will not be accessible to the public. After the embargo period has ended, the entire data record becomes accessible to the public.
All metadata provided must be published immediately through this community.