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About us

zedif helps research to excell in the digital world.

Lab notebook

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zedif zedif is short for “Kompetenzzentrum Digitale Forschung” in German, which in turn is “Competence Center Digital Research” in English.

zedifs main target group is researchers; primarily at the university of Jena, but generally also within the region of Jena.

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Consulting Consulting regarding Research Data Management and Research Software
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Training Training by zedif for different target groups
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Collaboration Integration into research groups, longer project collaborations

History
2015: founding of Michael Stifel Center Jena (MSCJExternal link) together with the RDM Helpdesk (link to web archiveExternal link)

2018: founding of the Thuringian Competence Network Research Data Management (TKFDMExternal link) with coordination by the RDM Helpdesk

2019: Initial plans for

service concerning “data literacy”, aimed at students and

service for digital research, aimed at researchers

2020/21: 5-year “initiation projects” for both

DaLiJe (Data Literacy Jena) and

zedif (now combining RDM and RSE services)

2023/24: mid/long-term vision

2024: evaluation
Localisation

zedif is part of the Michael Stifel Center Jena (MSCJExternal link), a research center of the University of Jena. As such, zedif is a research-driven unit within the university without direct affiliation to any specific department. However, the focus of researchers at zedif is, unlike researchers at departments, not on any specific, single, nor usually zedif-related topic. Instead, the researchers at zedif, besides offering training and consulting to other researchers, temporarily join research groups and collaborate on their research, offering their expertise and support and doing that enable, advance and accelerate the group's research.