Scientific information services provider FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany, has announced that it increased its revenues by approximately 10 percent to a total of Euro 30 million in 2010. Also in 2010, the Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure started its work on the German Digital Library (DDB) and initiated partnerships in several e-science projects. In addition, the Institute expanded its partnership with Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS).
The expansion of services offered by FIZ Karlsruhe in the e-science sector is seen to have borne fruit in 2010. The Institute kicked-off its participation in several large international projects.
As part of the EU-funded SCAPE project, FIZ Karlsruhe, the British Library, Microsoft Research, the Austrian Institute of Technology, the Open Planet Foundation and 10 additional partners are developing long-term archiving systems. The aim is to ensure that science, business and society have lasting access to large and heterogeneous data collections. The partners in the SCAPE (SCAlable Preservation Environments) project hope to develop solutions to this challenge over the next 3-5 years. FIZ Karlsruhe's contribution to the project will centre on the scalability of repository systems and their integration in cloud-based infrastructures.
In 2010, FIZ Karlsruhe was also chosen to be the technical operator for the design and pilot phases of the German Digital Library (DDB). In a series of expansion stages, the DDB will network the digital content of 30,000 cultural and educational institutions in Germany, such as libraries, museums and archives. This content will be tapped by knowledge management methods and rendered centrally accessible to the general public.
In 2011, FIZ Karlsruhe expects to continue in its mission to systematically support the overall process of scientific value creation through the integration of content, technology and services.
FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure (www.fiz-karlsruhe.de) is a not-for-profit organisation with the public mission to make sci-tech information from all over the world publicly available. It also seeks to provide related services in order to support the national and international transfer of knowledge and the promotion of innovation.
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