External Services and Tools for Research Data Management

This page offers a curated overview of external services, tools, and platforms that support research data management (RDM). It aims to give researchers and data managers quick access to reliable solutions and helpful resources — from data repositories and metadata editors to tools for planning and cost estimation in RDM.

External services and tools
Infrastructure and platforms
	Academic Cloud (Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung, GWDG)
	European Open Science Cloud – EU Node
	Nationale Forschungsdaten Infrastruktur (NFDI)
File formats for long-term preservation
	forschungsdaten.info
	KOST
	lzv.nrw
	OpenAIRE
Data repositories and directories
	Database for knowledge organization systems (bartoc.org, Head Office of the GBV)
	List of data repositories (Harvard Medical School)
	Directory of repositories for research data (re3data.org)
Metadata and standards
	Create metadata for your research project (Stanford University)
	List of subject-specific metadata (Digital Curation Center (DCC))
	Metadata Standards Catalog (University of Bath)
	Resource on data and metadata standards related to databases and data policies (fairsharing.org, University of Oxford)
Cost calculations for research data management
	Cost-benefit analysis for FAIR research data (European Commission: Directorate-General for Research and Innovation)
	Cost of data management (Utrecht University)
	Data management costing tool and checklist (PDF) (UK Data Service)
	What will it cost to manage and share my data? (OpenAIRE)
Legal aspects
	Scope GDPR (BERD@NFDI)
	Consent (BERD@NFDI)
	Research data management – legal and practical aspects (GESIS)
	Guide to Legal Aspects in Research Data Management (FAIRmat)
	Central Office for Data Protection at Universities in Baden-Württemberg (ZENDAS)
Glossary and helpful tools
	Glossary (forschungsdaten.info)
	Helpful tools (forschungsdaten.info)
AI Tools
	European Open-Source AI Index (Radboud University)
	List of AI tools (UFZ Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research)

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External Services and Tools for Research Data Management

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