Finding RDM Services Made Simple - The DataPLANT ARChub Recognized as an Official DFG-RIsource
Thu Jun 11 2026
DataPLANT has officially been registered as an approved DFG-RIsource. This represents a significant milestone for our consortium, marking an important step toward establishing DataPLANT as a sustainable component of the national research data infrastructure landscape. By securing this status, we are establishing a long-term framework for how collaborative biological research is supported and sustained.
This milestone futher strengthens DataPLANT’s role within the national research data infrastructure landscape. It provides a clear framework for referencing our services in future funding applications, while increasing transparency around available infrastructure offerings and associated cost structures. In doing so, the DFG-RIsource registration supports both researchers planning new projects and the long-term strategic positioning of DataPLANT’s services.
DFG-RIsources: A Registry for Research Infrastructures. The DFG RIsources is an information portal operated by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation). It provides a comprehensive registry of scientific research infrastructures in Germany and abroad. This registry makes it easier for applicants to locate established facilities, services, and resources and explicitly include them when preparing funding proposals.
Transitioning Toward Long-Term Sustainability. A core objective of DataPLANT is fostering open, cooperative science by providing robust research data management (RDM) infrastructure for the biological research community. To effectively serve this community over the long term, infrastructure and data management tools must outlast individual project funding cycles.
This DFG-RIsource listing represents an essential step in transitioning our services toward long-term sustainability. We are actively working to incrementally evolve our services and business models to match the long-term needs of researchers, data stewards, and university leadership. This structural development provides assurance that workflows built around Annotated Research Contexts (ARCs) and Swate remain supported and secure in the future.
Streamlining RDM for DFG Grant Applications. Planning the research data management (RDM) for a DFG grant application can introduce unexpected administrative complexity, particularly when balancing the diverse data needs of modern biological workflows. For the biological research community designing upcoming projects—whether tracking crop resilience in the field, decoding complex plant-microbiome interactions, or scaling multi-omic data pipelines—this process has become significantly more streamlined.
Because DataPLANT is now an officially recognized DFG-RIsource, this integration introduces key advantages for future funding applications:
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Streamlined Referencing: You can now reference DataPLANT services and associated costs through the DFG-RIsource catalogue when preparing funding applications.
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Reviewer Transparency: Using the DFG-RIsource for DataPLANT services can support the implementation of FAIR research data management practices and provide reviewers with a transparent and established infrastructure solution.
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Administrative Efficiency: This milestone simplifies the budgeting process by providing transparent and pre-defined service descriptions and cost structures.
By integrating our established infrastructure solutions into a proposal, labs can secure their data workflows early and focus their narrative on the core science.
Strategic Foundation for National Infrastructure. Beyond the immediate benefits to individual projects, this registration serves as a critical foundation for the broader scientific landscape. Specifically, achieving DFG-RIsource status provides a vital strategic foundation for our active participation in the upcoming DFG-NFDI-Storage-Call.
This status ensures that specialized biological data requirements—ranging from massive phenotyping datasets to multi-omic integrations—remain a priority when national research data storage strategies are decided.
Future Outlook. This milestone is the first iteration of an ongoing development process. We will step-by-step expand and refine our services, ensuring our infrastructure continually adapts to the cutting-edge demands of modern research.
🔗 The official registry entry and details for upcoming proposals can be found here: