Research Data Service Center: a glimpse behind the scenes

Dr Anne Diekjobst studied History, German Studies, English Studies, Latin, and Education in Bielefeld, Brisbane, and Münster, and completed her PhD at the University of Konstanz with a thesis on the social participation of religious women in the late Middle Ages. She undertook her training as an academic librarian in Osnabrück and Munich. At ULB Bonn, she works as a subject librarian for History, Theology, Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Cultural Anthropology. As a Digital Humanities specialist, she is particularly interested in data modelling, TEI-based digital publishing, and open source development. She is also engaged with questions of CARE principles, data ethics, data feminism, inclusive technology development, community-driven development, diversity and representation in digital collections, sustainable and accessible research infrastructures, collaborative workflows in open source communities, critical reflection on bias in data structures and metadata, as well as data sovereignty. At the Research Data Service Centre, she is the contact person for Digital Humanities projects, project workflows and humanities research data management.

While studying biology (with a focus on computer science and physics) at the University of Bonn, Ben Stöver also worked there as a scientific software developer. He then moved to the University of Münster, where he initially worked on his doctorate and then as a research assistant, primarily on the development of bioinformatic software. The focus was on improving the reusability of scientific data and the reproducibility of studies. In addition to this research work, his responsibilities also included teaching and IT infrastructure at the University of Münster. At the Research Data Service Centre, he is responsible as a software developer and IT architect for the development of the storage infrastructure and the services based on it for integrated research data infrastructure.

Annika Tensi studied at Maastricht University and Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands, where she also completed her PhD. In her research, she focused on sustainable agricultural innovations, exploring various social science questions at the intersection of economics, environment, and society in agricultural practice. Annika considers Open Science practices to be important for strengthening scientific integrity and avoiding dubious practices. She sees transparency and reproducibility as opportunities to improve the research culture. At the service center, she is the contact person for the Open Science Community, RDM-consulting and PR.

Sergej Zerr studied media informatics and information engineering at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences and Osnabrück University, as well as at the University of Twente (NL), where he was actively involved in the Dublin Core and W3C metadata initiatives as part of the Semantic Web Community. After completing his studies, Sergej Zerr earned his doctorate at Leibniz University Hannover in the field of privacy-oriented search in social internet applications, where he led a number of national and EU projects on AI-supported data analysis in the areas of internet research, qualitative secondary research, human computation and Industry 4.0. As an IT architect at the service centre, he is responsible for the design and technical implementation of the FDM infrastructure and services at the HRZ of the University of Bonn.