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.

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

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

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

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