<p>We describe the development of a repository for chemistry
research data (called Chemotion) that provides solutions for current challenges
to store research data in a feasible manner, allowing the conservation of
domain specific information in a machine readable format. A main advantage of
the repository Chemotion is the comprehensive functionality, which offers
options to collect, prepare and reuse data using discipline specific methods
and data processing tools. For selected analytical data, automated procedures
are implemented to facilitate the curation of the data. Chemotion provides
functions to facilitate the publishing process of data and the citation of the
deposited data. It supports automated Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
generation, the comparison of the submissions with PubChem instances, and
workflows for peer reviewing of the submissions including embargo settings. The
described developments were used to establish a research data infrastructure
that is hosted at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), including the
necessary storage and support to build a new community-driven repository as a
comprehensive alternative to commercial databases. </p>