Scientific domains, and which scientific (sub)disciplines belong to them or not, is a complex story. Strictly speaking, according to most categorisations, ‘Natural Sciences’ includes the field of Biology. However, biological disciplines are also part of the Life Sciences. To avoid confusion, we have divided the Natural Sciences into the Life Sciences and Physical Sciences. Hence the names of these two data stations. The distinguishing factor is that the research data of the Data Station Life Sciences relate to living organisms, while the Data Station for the Physical and Technical Sciences focuses more on non-living subjects, such as computing, technology and research on our physical environment. The DANS Data Stations follow the NARCIS classification, which is also embedded in the disciplinary tags you can provide to your dataset.
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