The Research Data Center Ruhr at the RWI (FDZ Ruhr im RWI)
Research institutes, such as the RWI in Essen, collect a multitude of data, which is often lost for the scientific community after the respective projects are finished. Following the recommendations of the "Kommission zur Verbesserng der informationellen Infrastruktur" (Commission to improve the informational infrastructure by co-operation of the scientific community and official statistics; KVI, 2001), the RWI started in 2011 to establish a research data center - the FDZ Ruhr - in order to facilitate the use of its data by external researchers. The creation of the FDZ Ruhr is partly financed by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology as well as the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Research of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Bauer, T., R. Budde und S. Schaffner (2013), The Research Data Center Ruhr at the RWI (FDZ Ruhr im RWI). Journal of Contextual Economics - Schmollers Jahrbuch, 133, 3, 439–448