With Coscine, research data can be archived for 10 years on the Research Data Storage (RDS) according to the good scientific practice.

One of Coscine’s main goals is to facilitate collaboration between researchers.

Coscine is developed at the IT Center of RWTH Aachen University.

Coscine (/ˈkəʊsaɪn/) stands for Collaborative Scientific Integration Environment and is a platform for your (research) data management (RDM).

Scientific integrity forms the basis of trustworthy science. Researchers have a great responsibility to meet these requirements in terms of good scientific practice and the FAIR principles, which are also anchored in the Higher Education Act of NRW 1 2.

Coscine is already used by a large number of institutes and in numerous research projects.

In Coscine, the research project is the overarching connecting element between the stored or linked research data.

For each resource, Coscine assigns a Persistent Identifier (PID). PIDs play a significant role in research data management.

The linked IT services in a project are called resources in Coscine.

Guaranteeing the security of your data is a fundamental pillar of Coscine and the technical realization has long been part of the core business at the IT Center of RWTH Aachen University.

To support modern research data management, Coscine relies on established standards and forward-looking technologies.

Metadata are the key to describing research data and making it reusable.