Service Project: Data Management

• Applicant: Professorin Dr. Uta Dahmen
• Subject Area: General and Visceral Surgery
• Term: since 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 436883643

For an interdisciplinary research network like QuaLiPerF, an efficient and comprehensive data management is essential for its success. This service project is designed to organize all aspects of data management and to support sharing and storage of data within and outside of the research unit. The goal of the data management project is to offer all members of QuaLiPerF an optimal support regarding data management. This includes the secure systematic handling, storage and sharing of data generated within QuaLiPerF, as well as ensuring data quality and documentation. We will strictly adhere to the F.A.I.R. data principles. Long-term re-usability for the scientific community is of particular importance. This applies to experimental laboratory data, anonymized patient data, as well as to data created by the modelers. QuaLiPerF will strictly adhere to established general and discipline-specific standards for data handling and long-term data storage and will implement comprehensive data control and management procedures. We will setup a joint repository with convention-based file naming and folder structure. The main task of the designated data manager is to ensure the adherence of all participating scientists in all projects to the data management plan. The data manager also has to secure the data storage and is responsible for backups. This includes documentation of structures, regulations and processes in our project wiki. Finally, this project will organize long term storage of data generated within QuaLiPerF and will assure accessibility of the data for the scientific community at the end of the project.

• DFG Programme: Research Units
• Subproject of: FOR 5151: Quantifying Liver Perfusion-Function Relationship in Complex Resection - A Systems Medicine Approach (QuaLiPerF)
• Co-Investigators: Professorin Dr. Nicole Radde; Privatdozent Dr. Hans-Michael Tautenhahn