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Meet bridgit ! Your new data juggling assistant to share important research data.

Let us introduce you two.

Think of bridgit as your new, multitasking research partner. The app will support you from the very first draft of your dataset to publishing it with the scientific community - bridgit accompanies you step by step without compromising any of your effort. And the best part? bridgit is fully integrated into your secure university cloud environment, making sharing easy and safe.

Who benefits from using bridgit?​

bridgit is mainly designed for three main groups: researchers across all disciplines at universities and institutes who need secure data management, institutional IT administrators who want to extend their Nextcloud environment with a research-focused solution as well as developers who are interested in integrating or extending bridgit to meet specific organizational needs.

Why is sharing and editing your data so important?​

Open science drives transparency, collaboration, and innovation in research (Quelle). By making data accessible, interoperable, and reusable, the FAIR principles ensure that research outputs can be discovered, shared, and built upon by the entire scientific community. This doesn’t only accelerates knowledge and research outcomes but also maximizes reproducibility and publicly funded research - and overall fosters a culture of trust, support and collaboration across disciplines.

What to Expect in This Documentation​

Whether you are a researcher, an administrator, or a developer, this documentation will guide you through how bridgit can support your work:

  1. If you are a researcher and want to know how to use bridgit, you will learn how to prepare and annotate datasets, create data management plans, upload projects and metadata. Also, we will be guiding you step by step through the process of data uploading to external repositories like Zenodo or OSF.

  2. If you are an institutional administrator and want to know how to connect bridgit to your organization, you will find guidance on setting up secure integrations, managing user access, and ensuring compliance with institutional requirements.

  3. If you are a developer and want to integrate bridgit into your cloud environment, this documentation provides instructions for connecting your systems, managing APIs, and embed bridgit easy into your own infrastructure.