# Dara

- **Website:** <https://da-ra.de>
- **Primary alias:** `da-ra.de`

## Description

It is operated jointly by GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences and ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, in cooperation with DataCite. The service helps data centers and archives make research datasets persistently identifiable, locatable and reliably citable, supporting their long-term availability and reuse.

Researchers and data providers can use da|ra to register DOI names for datasets and access guidance on the benefits and process of DOI registration. The website also provides the da|ra metadata schema, practical information on assigning and using DOI names, best-practice recommendations, and documentation for its API service. To help users discover registered material, da|ra offers quick and advanced searches across its collection of social science and economics research datasets, with faceted options for refining results.

The service is identified as based on DataCite and driven by the International DOI Foundation. It is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and provides support and contact information for users.

## Industries

- 🧪 Science and Education
- 🧪 Social Sciences _(under Science and Education)_

## Logos & icons

- logo _(primary)_ — PNG, SVG — [download](https://cdn.brandfetch.io/idhPoswzFC/w/820/h/428/theme/dark/logo.png?c=1bxid64Mup7aczewSAYMX&t=1791289976062)

## Colors

| Name | Hex | Theme |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Allports | #006d9f | accent |
| Swamp | #00090b | dark |
| Seagull | #84c3eb | light |

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_Source: <https://brandfetch.com/da-ra.de>_
_See [/llms.txt](/llms.txt) for a full list of agent-readable pages, and [/auth.md](/auth.md) for how agents authenticate._