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The DKZ.2R (Rhine-Ruhr Center for Scientific Data Literacy) is one of eleven data literacy centers in Germany funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR). It is expected to be funded till the End of 2028.
The DKZ.2R offers researchers at different career stages a range of different services to improve their skills in dealing with research data. These include curated training courses, a range of advisory services including scientific consulting, scientific hackathons and data challenges, and software tool development and integration.
The availability of ever larger and more complex amounts of data requires comprehensive skills that researchers often have to learn independently. This begins with the consideration of how scientific data should be collected so that, for example, artificial intelligence methods can be used effectively. But it also includes questions about how data should be stored, annotated, processed, evaluated and published.
The DKZ.2R therefore focuses on a combined methodological data competence, which consists in particular of data science and machine learning, high-performance computing and research data management. With the wide-ranging key domains of mathematics and computer science as well as life sciences, natural sciences and engineering, the Data Literacy Center thus offers services for a broad range of domain scientists. It enables them to break through data-related barriers and promotes synergies between the disciplines.