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@INPROCEEDINGS{Langer:1048699,
      author       = {Langer, Raymond and Fröde, Fabian and Cafiero, Marianna
                      and Pitsch, Heinz},
      title        = {{E}xperience report: {D}eveloping and implementing a
                      research datamanagement strategy and policy at the
                      {I}nstitute for {C}ombustion {T}echnology},
      reportid     = {FZJ-2025-04821},
      year         = {2025},
      note         = {This work is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
                      (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany’s
                      Excellence Strategy – Cluster of Excellence 2186 “The
                      Fuel Science Center” – ID: 390919832.},
      abstract     = {From FAIR principles to practice, we present an experience
                      report on designing and implementing an institute-wide
                      research data management strategy and policy at the
                      Institute for Combustion Technology, RWTH Aachen University.
                      With about 25 PhD students and postdocs across simulations,
                      experiments, and modeling, we initially lacked a unified
                      process amid the use of diverse tools and various individual
                      solutions. The decision to create an institute-wide policy
                      emerged as we moved to use the Collaborative Scientific
                      Integration Environment (Coscine) for the management and
                      storage of research data and to integrate it with existing
                      processes and IT infrastructure, which raised complex data
                      management questions. The policy provides clear governance
                      through three pillars: project-level data management plans
                      in the Research Data Management Organiser (RDMO), git-based
                      management of software and other text-based assets in the
                      RWTH GitLab, and storage, referencing, and documentation of
                      all research data in Coscine. It grew from broad discussions
                      on processes, infrastructure, and domain knowledge. A small
                      team of group leaders, data stewards, and experienced PhD
                      students prepared the draft and refined it with feedback
                      from about 25 researchers. We share lessons learned:
                      establishing institute-wide standards is time-consuming, but
                      it enables sharing proven practices, clarifies and improves
                      processes, and ensures long-term findability and
                      accessibility. The strategy is available at
                      https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17748591},
      month         = {Nov},
      date          = {2025-11-18},
      organization  = {Tag der Forschungsdaten in NRW 2025,
                       RWTH Aachen (Germany), 18 Nov 2025 - 18
                       Nov 2025},
      typ          = {PUB:(DE-HGF)31},
      doi          = {10.34734/FZJ-2025-04821},
      url          = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1048699},
}