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What is the DataHub?

The DataHub is an infrastructure project of the "The Adaptive Mind" (TAM) consortium in which research groups in the field of psychology and neuroscience, based at multiple hessian universities work together. TAM is a cluster project funded by the Hessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Science and the Arts from 2021 to 2025.

Guided by the "FAIR" principles, the DataHub offers resources, services and support to affiliated researches on various levels to ease collaborative work:

  • Central storage and compute resources: MaSC / MaRC3,
  • Services that allow efficient usage of these resources: JupyterHub, TAM GitLabTM and the TAM DataHub Repository (DSpace)
  • Support on how to use the services in a way that fits the needs of the individual project.

The goals and the functional scope of the DataHub are illustrated in the figure below. Important features and principles of the DataHub are outlined in the TAM Data and Code Policy.

Figure 1: Functional scope and goals of the DataHub.

What is FAIR about the DataHub?

FAIR means, your data should be easily Findable, persistently Accessible, broadly Interoperable and thus Re-usable. Sharing "FAIR" data is a sustainable way of handling your data and allows you to get the most value out of your work for yourself, your organization and the greater community.

In practice this may be a real challenge, especially if domain-specific standards are not settled and/or persons from various fields work together. With our services and support we aim to empower you to practice and improve on FAIR data management. Therefore, we kindly ask you to use certain tools, workflows and principles of organization and description of data whenever possible.

That sounds difficult? Don't worry - you are not alone! The DataHub Team stands by to offer training, answer your questions and find solutions together with you.

Support

The DataHub Team consists of people with backgrounds in science, IT and research data management. We offer face-to-face workshops, recorded tutorials, group and individual consulting, and general support on DataHub infrastructure, tools and research data management.

You are most welcome to contact us via datahub@uni-marburg.de. You may also get in touch with the Data Stewards directly: