Features
GDPR Compliance
Researchers disclose the individuals from whom they have gathered data, so that requests for access or erasure can be handled efficiently.
Pseudonym service
Contact details are stored in Castellum so all other databases can work with pseudonyms instead.
Recruitment
Castellum allows you to find potential participants from an existing pool using study specific filters.
Appointments
You can manage appointments for test sessions.
Contact
Demo
Open Source
Documentation
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) mandates that organizations maintain a comprehensive inventory of the data they hold on individuals. This requirement poses challenges within research institutes, where researchers traditionally have a high degree of autonomy in organizing their work.
Castellum addresses this by serving as a centralized repository, enabling researchers to disclose the individuals from whom they have gathered data. Additionally, Castellum allows to track recruitment consent for these individuals, thereby creating a recruitment pool for future research projects.
Castellum makes answering GDPR requests a breeze.
Community
Castellum strives to be an active community project. A public GitLab repository is used to collaborate on the code. Users share insights and suggestions through a chat group and regular community gatherings.
Community Meeting 2024
The community meeting 2024 took place in Berlin on November 5, 2024, with the following talks and workshops:
- Meltem Carpin (MPG) - Datenschutz Light (slides)
- Tobias Bengfort and Karolina Mader (MPI for Human Development) (slides)
- Lennart Wittkuhn (UHH) (slides)
- Moana Beyer (GerTRuD) (slides)
- Workshop: Unblocking difficult tasks (results)
- Stefan Fürtinger and Simone Plewik (ESI) (slides)
- Volker Arendt (Uni Wuppertal)
- Workshop: Organizational Key Factors (results)
- Jochen Klar (RDMO) (slides)
Community Meeting 2023
The community meeting 2023 with talks and workshops took place in Berlin on September 25, 2023 (agenda). The following organisations were represented:
- MPI for Human Development
- MPI for Biological Cybernetics
- MPI for Molecular Genetics
- MPI for Psycholinguistics
- Max Planck Digital Library
- Max Planck Computing and Data Facility
- Ernst Strüngmann Institute
- Universität Hamburg
- University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
If you are interested in becoming part of the community, we invite you to reach out to us at castellum@mpib-berlin.mpg.de.
