The department provides high quality research data and information for use in landscape research and research management. FIS develops, implements, and manages information infrastructures for virtual research environments and business processes. This includes portals for project- , facility- and human resource management, web presences, workspaces for teams, information systems, lab order systems, performance surveys, reporting systems and reference data We support open science and assist getting access to research information. Please use our public links or contact us if further assistance is needed.
Efficient controlling and reporting systems as well as publishing infrastructures are based on standardized collection of information about research activities. We follow the recommendations of the Wissenschaftsrat about the Core Data Set on Research Activities and the requirements that emerge from the research at ZALF to make research output and context comparable, consistent and quality checked. Our vision is an infrastructure of cross-linked research information, based on core data sets, context and semantic web.
We design, implement and develop .Net, SharePoint and SQL Server based system environments for project collaboration, web presentation and research supporting platforms. We provide repositories as well as content- and document management systems for data- and information management and we assist in internet domain and webspace acquisition and maintenance.
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The department provides development and integration services for research management processes. This includes in-house development of service application and the design and implementation of integrated process and information architectures. Among others, FIS supports publication and data management, young career development, performance monitoring, controlling, reporting, human resource management, lab and experimental field order systems, facility management and IT.
We support and encourage researcher and administration to manage and archive ZALF research data on an institutional level and register and publish these data for re-use within the public domain. As publication agent in cooperation with the Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology we offer services for registration and publication of research data since 2010. Our ZALF open-research-data repository, targeting landscape research data, has been registered with Thomson Reuters Web of Science in 2015.
We promote automated notification services to improve the efficiency of communication and collaboration. Also, the objective is to reduce the effort for science peripheral management tasks and in this way increase employee satisfaction. For example, automated notification systems are being used for monitoring the life cycle of research projects and employment as well as for order and registration systems, facility management, event management and car reservation.
We offer information and support through advice and training for all services. Contact us.
