Our Services
Research data management & curation
Data curation
Structuring, describing, and quality-checking research collections so they stay findable and reusable.
Metadata & ontology support
Designing metadata schemas, mapping project vocabularies to the Cluster ontology, reconciling with Wikidata, and building taxonomies in African languages.
Research data publication & archival
Choosing the right repository, preparing datasets for deposit, and obtaining DOIs, with long-term archival in DSpace.
DRE contact: Neeraj Thandayan-Viswajith and Frédérick Madore
Data science & computational methods
Data science / computational methods
Statistical analysis, network analysis, text mining, NLP, and pattern detection across large corpora.
Web scraping & data collection
Automated collection of online sources — newspapers, social media, and websites.
DRE contact: Oliver Baumann
AI-assisted processing
AI-assisted data processing
OCR for scanned documents and handwriting, transcription of audio and video, and summarisation of large corpora.
AI-assisted cataloguing & metadata
Metadata annotation, named-entity extraction, and automatic tagging and classification of digital collections — using local, open-source, GDPR-compliant models.
DRE contact: Frédérick Madore
Dissemination & presentation
Data visualisation
Interactive dashboards, network graphs, and mapping that make research data explorable and presentable — as in the AMIRA dashboard.
Digital exhibitions & collection databases
Searchable, public-facing collection databases built on Omeka S.
Website creation
Project websites and public-facing dissemination platforms.
DRE contact: Neeraj Thandayan-Viswajith and Frédérick Madore