RADAR4ING is offered by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and builds on the RADAR service provided by FIZ Karlsruhe. Data is stored exclusively on KIT’s IT infrastructure at the Scientific Computing Center (SCC ). The service is intended for researchers from the NFDI4ING community (“data providers”) who wish to publish their data. In RADAR4ING, data can be made available to third parties (“data users”) or published on the Internet.

License and Terms of Use for Data Providers for RADAR4ING

License

1. Based on the license you have selected, you grant KIT non-exclusive rights of use, unlimited in time and space, to the research data you have uploaded for the purposes of RADAR4ING. Your rights to the data remain unaffected.

2. You must license the metadata you submit under a Creative Commons CC0 license, thereby making it freely available to the general public.

3. You shall indemnify KIT against any claims by third parties that such third parties may assert against KIT due to legal violations on your part and shall assist KIT, to the extent necessary, in defending against any such third-party claims.

Terms of Use

1. KIT grants you, as an authorized user within the framework of NFDI4ING, the right to use RADAR4ING. To this end, you have been assigned the role of data provider.

2. This entitles you to upload research data to RADAR4ING.

3. You are personally responsible for the accuracy of the research data you upload.

4. You are currently not permitted to upload personal research data to RADAR4ING. You must anonymize such data before uploading it.

5. When publishing a data package, you grant a license that governs the rights of use for any subsequent use. RADAR4ING offers various suitable license terms for this purpose.

6. KIT does not charge you any fees for using RADAR4ING.

7. KIT implements appropriate technical and organizational measures to store your data securely and reliably.

8. KIT assumes no warranty or liability for the downloading and handling of the data by data users.

9. Information on data processing can be found in the corresponding Privacy Policy . Please also note the KIT Regulations. 

10. You may use RADAR4ING exclusively for the publication of research data.

11. You may not upload any illegal content—e.g., content that glorifies violence, incites hatred, or is defamatory—to RADAR4ING. You must also ensure that the publication of the uploaded data does not infringe upon any conflicting rights of third parties to this data.

12. If KIT is made aware of legal violations in connection with a data package, KIT may block access to that data package and, if necessary, delete it without consulting you. Furthermore, KIT reserves the right to block your access to RADAR4ING if you use RADAR4ING in a manner contrary to these Terms of Use.

Terms of Use for RADAR4ING Data Users

RADAR4ING is an online service for the publication of research data from completed scientific studies and projects for researchers in the NFDI4ING community. The service is provided by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). RADAR4ING is based on the RADAR service offered by FIZ Karlsruhe. Data is stored exclusively on KIT’s IT infrastructure at the Scientific Computing Center ( SCC ).

Through RADAR, researchers in the NFDI4ING community (“data providers”) can compile research data into data packages, describe them with metadata, store them, and make them publicly available. Content evaluation and quality checks are performed exclusively by the data providers.

1. The scope of the user agreement between you (“data user”) and KIT is limited to the download of data packages or metadata. KIT reserves the right to restrict the use of RADAR4ING or to discontinue the service entirely.

2. If you register as a data user or authenticate via Shibboleth, the data provider may grant you access to unpublished documents as well.

3.  Information on data processing can be found in the corresponding privacy policy. This is available at https://radar4kit.radar-service.eu/de/privacy

4. KIT assumes no warranty or liability for the content provided, except in cases of mandatory statutory liability. KIT does not review the content provided.

5. KIT does not charge you, as a data user, any fees for conducting research in RADAR4ING or for downloading data packages.

6. You must comply with the license terms associated with the data package, which will be communicated to you before you download it.