Support

All important information about RADAR at a glance.

Here you have access to general product information, technical publications and lectures, glossary, FAQs, video tutorials, quickstart guides and much more. You will also find technical documentation, e.g., on the RADAR metadata schema, the RADAR API and the OAI PMH provider.

And of course our contact details if you have further questions about RADAR.

FAQ

Is your question included? - The most frequently asked questions and answers about RADAR are summarized in our FAQ section.
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Glossary

The RADAR glossary will certainly contain the keyword for which you need an explanation.
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Video Tutorials

Our video tutorials explain step by step how to reliably archive or publish your research data with RADAR.
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Quickstart Guides

The RADAR Quickstart Guides help you to familiarize yourself with RADAR. They present role-specific activities of administrators and curators in a clear, concise way.

For Administrators:

Quickstart Guide (PDF)

For Curators:

Quickstart Guide (PDF)

Brochure and poster

Short, concise information:

RADAR brochure (PDF, in German)

Everything at a glance:

RADAR poster - E-Science-Tage 2023 (PDF, in German)

Publications

Our publications and lectures will help you get familiar with RADAR.
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RADAR Metadata Schema

The RADAR metadata schema is based on the DataCite metadata schema, a widely used and discipline-independent standard for describing datasets.
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RADAR API

RADAR services can be integrated into own applications via RADAR API. RADAR can be used in parallel via RADAR API and the regular RADAR user interface.
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RADAR OAI-Provider

Our OAI-provider allows metadata harvesting of all research data published in RADAR according to the Open Archives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH).
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RADAR Test System

This allows you to test RADAR for your institution free of charge and without any obligation.
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Newsletter

Would you like to stay up to date on RADAR? – Feel free to subscribe to our newsletter that informs you at irregular intervals on an occasion-related basis about all news concerning RADAR.

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Download and read previous issues of the RADAR newsletter (all in German language):

RADAR Newsletter - February 08, 2023 (PDF)

RADAR Newsletter - December 15, 2022 (PDF)

RADAR Newsletter - July 28, 2022 (PDF)

RADAR Newsletter - May 02, 2022 (PDF)

RADAR Newsletter - February 14, 2022 (PDF)

RADAR Newsletter - January 11, 2022 (PDF)

RADAR Newsletter - Dezember 16, 2021 (PDF)

RADAR Newsletter - August 05, 2021 (PDF)

RADAR Newsletter - February 22, 2021 (PDF)

RADAR Newsletter - January 27, 2021 (PDF)

RADAR Newsletter - December 18, 2020 (PDF)

RADAR Newsletter - August 05, 2020 (PDF)

Contact

If you have any questions or require further advice, our RADAR team will be happy to assist you:

FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure
RADAR
Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1
76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany

Phone: +49 7247 808 841
Fax: +49 7247 808 133
E-Mail: info [at] radar-service.eu

Contact

Dr. Felix Bach

Head Research Data
Phone:
+49 7247 808 624
+49 7247 808 624
felix.bach [at] fiz-karlsruhe.de