Designing the Architecture of an Ecosystem for the Management of Research Data and Software

12 pages•Published: June 18, 2026

Jan Bernoth, Andreas Hartmann and Ulrike Lucke

Abstract

Establishing open science practices faces the challenge of integrating new workflows and tools with scientific infrastructure grown for decades. Thus, initiatives providing new services for research data and software management have a strong need to establish a flexible and sustainable system architecture, covering both existing and emerging parts, and at the same time being open for further refinement. Based on established principles and solutions as well as a requirements analysis with the community, this article provides a distributed architecture to cope with these challenges. Added value is demonstrated based on facilitated use cases, and further directions of work are lined out.

Keyphrases: enterprise architecture, nfdixcs, research data management, research software mangement, technical architecture

In: Laurence Desnos, Carmen Diaz, Janina Mincer-Daszkiewicz, Lazaros Merakos, Raimund Vogl, Stuart McLellan and Ulrike Lucke (editors). Proceedings of EUNIS 2026 Annual Congress, vol 109, pages 133-144.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/pHgk
	https://doi.org/10.29007/wrcz

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{EUNIS2026:Designing_Architecture_Ecosystem_Management,
  author    = {Jan Bernoth and Andreas Hartmann and Ulrike Lucke},
  title     = {Designing the Architecture of an Ecosystem for the Management of Research Data and Software},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of EUNIS 2026 Annual Congress},
  editor    = {Laurence Desnos and Carmen Diaz and Janina Mincer-Daszkiewicz and Lazaros Merakos and Raimund Vogl and Stuart McLellan and Ulrike Lucke},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Computing},
  volume    = {109},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2398-7340},
  url       = {/publications/paper/pHgk},
  doi       = {10.29007/wrcz},
  pages     = {133-144},
  year      = {2026}}

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