The GO FAIR Im­ple­men­ta­ti­on Net­work GO Unite! is an in­ter­ac­ti­ve fo­rum of the Data Ste­ward­ship Com­pe­tence Cen­ters (DSCC) in which the Ger­man re­se­arch data ma­nage­ment (RDM) com­mu­ni­ty con­nects with each other across di­sci­pli­nes. The con­tents of GO Unite! are pro­vi­ded by the com­mu­ni­ty and are de­fi­ned and pro­ces­sed bey­ond for­mal pro­ject struc­tures. Wi­thin this low-th­­res­hold co­ope­ra­ti­on culture,… 

On 21 Oc­to­ber 2021, the se­cond GO Unite! mee­ting of 2021 took place. 42 par­ti­ci­pan­ts from dif­fe­rent lo­cal, in­sti­tu­tio­nal, and do­­main-spe­ci­­fic re­se­arch data ma­nage­ment in­sti­tu­ti­ons gathe­red to talk about the ac­ti­vi­ties of the th­ree GO Unite! working groups and to dis­cuss about new com­mon re­qui­re­ments, to­pics and chal­lenges of the com­mu­ni­ty. Anna Wałek from the… 

GO UNITE! – form­er­ly known as GO UNI – is the Ger­man Chap­ter of the GO FAIR Im­ple­men­ta­ti­on Net­work Data Ste­ward­ship Com­pe­tence Cen­ters (DSCC). In the past the­re have been se­ve­ral mi­sun­derstan­dings re­gar­ding the mis­si­on and the tar­get group of the Ger­man DSCC chap­ter, cau­sed by its name “GO UNI”. For some col­le­agues, GO UNI implied… 

On 11 Fe­bru­ary 2021 around 60 par­ti­ci­pan­ts gathe­red for the stra­tegy mee­ting of GO UNI. Their cre­do: prag­ma­tic – con­cre­te – com­­mu­­ni­­ty-dri­­ven. Ba­sed on this cre­do GO UNI crea­tes a fo­rum un­der the um­brel­la of the GO FAIR Data Ste­ward­ship Com­pe­tence Cen­ters Im­ple­men­ta­ti­on Net­work (DSCC IN). In this fo­rum Ger­­ma­­ny-ba­­sed re­se­arch data ma­nage­ment (RDM) ex­perts with a special… 

For the con­cre­te im­ple­men­ta­ti­on of a pro­fes­sio­nal re­se­arch data ma­nage­ment, dif­fe­rent ap­proa­ches are cho­sen at Ger­man uni­ver­si­ties, which are ge­ared to the uni­­ver­­­si­­ty-spe­ci­­fic needs, and or­ga­niza­tio­nal struc­tures and cul­tures. Here the wheel is of­ten re­inven­ted in­s­tead of buil­ding on exis­ting and reusable so­lu­ti­ons. Both the buil­ding and the es­tab­lish­ment of uni­­ver­­­si­­ty-wide re­se­arch data ma­nage­ment structures…