GFZ Data Services is a research data repository hosted at the GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam, Germany. GFZ Data Services is open for research data and scientific software from the Earth and environmental sciences. To explore published data, please visit our data portal. The entry point to publish data is our metadata editor. Instructions for authors and materials related to data management are located in the Support section of the website.
During the past years we have developed several DOI minting services for larger projects and international services and networks. Our Data Centres organise data publications according to their projects, networks or services affinity and may have project-specific landing page designs.
The research infrastructure at GFZ comprises satellite systems, global station networks, and regional observatories, as well as instrument networks, laboratories, instrument pools and data systems. As a Helmholtz centre, GFZ fulfils an important role in providing infrastructure, data, information, instrument systems and networks. We classify the instruments and services of our research infrastructure that are available to the entire international scientific community and which are subject to special terms of use as Modular Earth Science Infrastructure (MESI).
ResearchInfrastructure@GFZ is the central discovery portal for research infrastructures and data at GFZ. It enables structured searches across disciplines, product categories (data, services and software), persons and GFZ sections, and provides basic information with links to further information on the GFZ websites and data access.
The International Generic Sample Number (IGSN) is a globally unique and persistent identifier (PID) for unambiguous identification of physical samples and collections with discovery function in the internet. IGSNs are citable in scholarly literature and enable to directly link data and publications with the samples they originate from and thus close one of the last gaps in the full provenance of research results.
GFZ operates an IGSN Registration service since 2015. All sample identifier registered via GFZ Data Services can be found in the GFZ Data Services IGSN Catalogue.