infrastructures such as the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) were able to implement suitable processes for an automated evaluation of research data, which allow for the efficient and automatic review of thousands of crystal structures for the Crystal Structure Database (CSD) per year . In the future, a significant increase in the utilisation of repositories and databases can be anticipated due to an increased obligation by publishers and funding organisations to preserve and provide access to research data. Review and curation mechanisms could also provide valuable assistance for other services than repositories. For example, the software solutions used by researchers for documentation, above all electronic laboratory journals, could benefit from support through automatic review mechanisms.