Based on a continuous dialogue with the expert community and its own research in computer and information science, DIPF runs and develops state of the art science infrastructures that process and document educational information geared to user needs. It provides research data services as well as library and archive holdings. The Forschungsdatenzentrum Bildung (FDZ Bildung) at DIPF, a centre for research data on education, is the central point of contact for educational researchers, providing qualitative datasets and quantitative instruments from research mainly on school and instructional quality. The Institute's task is to take a leading role in enabling central access to nationally distributed data in educational research. In the pilot project Verbund Forschungsdaten Bildung (Alliance for Research Education Data), DIPF cooperates with the Institut zur Qualitätsentwicklung im Bildungswesen (Institute for Educational Quality Improvement, IQB) and the GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften (Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) to create and operate a national data archiving and research infrastructure. Moreover, DIPF supports the eHumanities with digital technologies and data for research in the humanities and cultural sciences, e. g. by offering digitised texts and images from the Research Library for the History of Education’s stocks. In addition, the Institute conducts research on, develops and tests digital technologies that support collaborative research processes.