{"id":8162,"date":"2025-12-18T15:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T14:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/forschungsdaten\/?p=8162"},"modified":"2026-02-02T13:23:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T12:23:23","slug":"coscine-als-teil-des-fidelis-netzwerks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/forschungsdaten\/en\/2025\/12\/18\/coscine-als-teil-des-fidelis-netzwerks\/","title":{"rendered":"Coscine as Part of the Fidelis Network \u2013 For a European Open Science Community"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Source: Coscine<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

In an increasingly digitized research landscape, the establishment of trustworthy digital repositories is becoming increasingly important in order to promote sustainable and open science. This is precisely what the FIDELIS network<\/a> is pursuing with the aim of establishing a Europe-wide network of these repositories.<\/p>\n

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Europe-wide Network of Trustworthy Research Data<\/span><\/h3>\n

The FIDELIS network is a project that aims to create a dynamic open science community in Europe. To this end, it seeks to strengthen and support digital research databases that are based on the FAIR<\/strong> principles: Research data should be F<\/strong>indable, A<\/strong>ccessible, I<\/strong>nteroperable, and R<\/strong>eusable.<\/p>\n

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Coscine Part of the Fidelis Network<\/span><\/h3>\n

FIDELIS is coordinated by the Finnish CSC (IT Center for Science) and comprises 24 partners from 12 European countries. The project is currently in its pilot phase and supports 58 research data repositories. In addition to the repositories, the Coscine<\/a> research data management platform is also involved. Coscine was developed at the IT Center<\/a> of RWTH Aachen University and is available to researchers at DH.NRW universities.<\/p>\n

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Workshop on the Evaluation of Coscine Data<\/span><\/h3>\n

Coscine has joined the FIDELIS network in order to align itself with international standards. As a partner in the European context, FIDELIS is contributing to the implementation of these standards and to networking Coscine at the European level.<\/p>\n

The project was launched with a two-month online workshop consisting of four sessions, including hands-on sessions. Within this framework, the extent to which research data in Coscine can be verified using automated tools was examined. This verification focused primarily on the implementation of FAIR principles in existing data.<\/p>\n

The basis for this was FAIR EVA, a tool for evaluating, validating, and advising on the FAIR compliance of digital objects in repositories. A specially tailored plugin was developed for this purpose to evaluate the data in Coscine and assess it in terms of the FAIR principles. This plugin is intended to support Coscine in evaluating its research data.<\/p>\n

By participating in the workshop, the Coscine team also contributed to the development of support processes within the FIDELIS network.<\/p>\n

In addition to the IT Center at RWTH Aachen University, other European institutions also participated in the workshop, including the Slovenian Social Science Data Archives. Participation enabled a professional exchange on different metadata schemas and discipline-specific requirements for the FAIR evaluation of research data.<\/p>\n

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Outlook<\/span><\/h3>\n

The full integration of FAIR evaluation into Coscine currently requires resources that have not yet been made available. Nevertheless, the Coscine team is looking forward to the next steps in this exciting project and to working with FIDELIS to promote a sustainable open science community.<\/p>\n

For further information, please refer to the recently published article on Zenodo entitled “Customizing FAIR EVA: Lessons learned on building a FAIR assessment plugin tailored to your repository.<\/a>”<\/p>\n

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Learn More<\/span><\/h3>\n

Don’t want to miss any news about Coscine? Then visit the Coscine website<\/a> and subscribe to the newsletter<\/a> to receive regular updates and further information.<\/p>\n

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Responsible for the content of this article are Hedda Faber<\/a>, David Schimmel<\/a> and Arlinda Ujkani<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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(*)\u00a0The paragraph was updated on February 2, 2026.<\/span><\/h6>\n

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This entry is only available in Deutsch. In einer zunehmend digitalisierten Forschungslandschaft wird der Aufbau vertrauensw\u00fcrdiger digitaler Repositorien immer wichtiger, um eine nachhaltige und offene Wissenschaft zu f\u00f6rdern. Genau das […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3675,"featured_media":6181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"c2c_always_allow_admin_comments":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,106,108,20],"tags":[148,946,947,218,343,948],"class_list":["post-8162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rwth","category-aus-der-praxis","category-berichte","category-rwth-best-practices","tag-coscine","tag-fidelis","tag-fidelis-netzwerk","tag-forschungsdaten","tag-forschungsdatenmanagement","tag-open-science-community"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t