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About the Institution

The Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung (SGN) conducts research in bio- and geosciences within six research institutes and three natural history museums in Germany. The mission of the SGN is to make science and scientific findings accessible to the public through teaching, publishing, museums and special exhibitions in Frankfurt, Dresden, Görlitz and Tübingen. Senckenberg's research activity is divided into four large research fields: Biodiversity, Systematics and Evolution, Biodiversity and Environment, Biodiversity and Climate & Biodiversity and Earth System Dynamics.
With about 40 million objects/items in currently more than 200 collections the SGN has one of the largest scientific collections in Germany. The objects involve a herbarium, zoological, anthropological, paleontological and mineralogical collections plus a DNA Bank. SGN is part of the Leibniz association.


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About the Data Center

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SGN has various interests in different data domains, including: Collection data, molecular data, observational data, environmental data, series of measurements and trait data. Data archiving for research projects is focusing on botanical, zoological and anthropological data, especially collection data in combination with the deposit of

  • physical objects
  • referenced multimedia objects.


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Data Center Profile


Name

SGN – Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung – Leibniz Institute, Frankfurt 

URL

https://www.senckenberg.de/
Description

The MS SQL based collection database SeSam is run by the SGN IT Department as part of the central Senckenberg IT infrastructure. SeSam is the core database for managing collection and observation data. It is supplemented by the Apache Solr based AQUiLA, providing a full text search service through a web-frontend. The SGN IT Department is in close collaboration with the data and modelling centre of the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F).

Scientific data curation services (incl. taxonomic services)

The taxonomic expertise and interest is that of the SGN with its research departments.

Special expertise in various groups of invertebrates GBIF Node Invertebrates III (Crustaceae, Porifera, Cnidaria, Ctenophora, Tunicata and Bryozoa)

Participating in international cooperation projects such as DiSSCo and IPBES or EUdaphobase and also involved in the international LTER network (Long-Term Ecosystem Research).

The SGN has a special interest in data on specimens curated at the SGN.

The SGN has a special interest in data on research projects with scientists of the SGN involved.

Data domains (scope)SGN has various interests in different data domains, including: Collection data, molecular data, observational data, environmental data, series of measurements and trait data.
Target group

Service Description

Data archiving for research projects is focusing on botanical, zoological and anthropological data, according to our profile description (SGN - extended profile).

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Collection data, together with the deposit of physical objects, referenced multimedia objects.

IT services

Data submission and accession

  • Collection Management System SeSam/AQUiLA
  • Data hosting and import for Partner institutions
  • Senckenberg provides persistent identifiers (DOIs) to support data archiving and access to research data.
  • Senckenberg hosts a data repository for earth, environmental and ecological research data

Data backup and archiving

  • SGN has implemented an effective backup and archiving workflow

Data publication

User services

Helpdesk and Workshops on demand

Service LevelsData Set xData Package x Data management xResearch Objects x
Data  Formats

Data Submission Formats

Data

Flexible; Preferably standardized formats like ABCD, EML; Spreadsheets (CSV) Example templates for data submission can be found in the GFBio collection of recommended data submission templates

MetadataEML, ABCD, DarwinCore

Data Accessibility

Public access points GFBio, BioCASe Data Access Services at the SGN, Institutional landing pages of citable stable URIs,  BioCASE, GBIF, SeSam/AQUiLA
Standardised exchange formatsXML-files in ABCD, DarwinCore, EML standard
Data formatsText, CSV, XML
Long-term availabilityUnlimited (minimum guaranteed time period of 10 years)

Data Publication Services

Data CitationYes, citation for each individual data set
DOI

DOIs are issued via GBIF publication and via DataCite publication

Archiving (RAW-data ingest, data, media)


Licenses / Terms of Use

Metadata


Data


Documentation

Computing center, external service provider

name of the associated computing center(s), (commercial) service provider(s) and services provided


Backup




Your contact persons at SENCKENBERG

Data curator

  • Anke Penzlin

Technical contact

  • Anke Penzlin

NFDI contact persons

  • Anke Penzlin, Hanieh Saeedi
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Do you have questions, feedback or need help?

Contact our Helpdesk for direct support.


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