The Cloud-Service RADAR was developed as a cooperation project funded by the DFG (2013-2016) including project partners from Technical Information Library (TIB), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München, The Leibniz Institute for Plant Biochemistry and the Steinbuch Center for Computing (SCC) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
RADAR started operations in March 2017. FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz-Institute for Informationinfrastructure now acts as a operator and contract partner. Three copies of the data in RADAR Cloud are stored at different geographical locations in the data centers of the Steinbuch Center for Computing (SCC) and in the Center for Information Services and High Performance Calculation (ZIH) at TU Dresden. Thus the data storage is subject to the legal provisions of the Federal Republic of Germany. TIB remains an important partner, and, as a DataCite member, is responsible for the allocation and registration of DOIs.
RADAR Funding Application (German)
RADAR Final Report (German)
Press Release (German) (16.03.2017)
Since the introduction of the new variants RADAR Hybrid and RADAR Local in 2021, own IT resources can be integrated into RADAR.
With RADAR Hybrid, using institutions can store their research data in their own archive with the help of the hosted RADAR software. With RADAR Local, FIZ Karlsruhe operates the RADAR software on behalf of the using institution on its local IT infrastructure and using exclusively the institution's own storage systems.