The MASi repository service - Comprehensive, metadata-driven and multi-community research data management.

Nowadays, the daily work of many research communities is characterized by an increasing amount and complexity of data. This makes it increasingly difficult to manage, access and utilize the data to ultimately gain scientific insights based on it. At the same time, domain scientists want to focus on their science instead of IT. The solution is research data management to store data in a structured way enabling easy discovery for future reference and usage. An integral part is the use of metadata. With it, data becomes accessible by its content and context instead of its name and location only. The use of metadata shall be as automatic and seamless as possible in order to foster a high usability.