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About us

NFDI-wide basic services can significantly improve efficiency and the seamless and smooth use of research data management services within and outside of NFDI. Base4NFDI is a joint initiative of all NFDI consortia. Institutions from all key areas of scientific infrastructure provision and from all major research organisations in Germany are actively involved. The target group of NFDI-wide basic services is the entire NFDI community. In its work, Base4NFDI builds on two pillars:
1) organisationally, on the participatory co-creation of basic services development by the communities within the NFDI Association;
2) technologically, on a common framework that creates quality-assured and coherent models for the continuous identification, support, development, operation and evaluation of NFDI-wide basic services.

Goals

  • Integration of services to support research data management across different disciplines, data types, and existing infrastructures in NFDI
  • Basic services for NFDI-wide usage
  • Transparent and quality-assured bottom-up process in three stages for the establishment of a basic service, embedded in the NFDI sections
  • Networking with the European infrastructure landscape (in particular EOSC)

Task Areas

Task Areas Base4NFDI

TA1 Service Requirements, Design and Development

TA1 will support all activities in the NFDI sections and its working groups related to identifying potential basic services and preparing proposals for service initialization. TA1 helps to enter the initialization phase and will be backing a requirements analysis across consortia and prospective users, software evaluation and service design. All steps take place in close cooperation with the sections of the NFDI Association.

 

TA2 Service Integration and Ramping up for Operation

After a successful initialisation phase of a basic service candidate, Task Area 2 takes care of the following phases of integration and ramping-up. For service improvement, measures are taken to improve software quality and user acceptance.

 

TA3 Service Coherence Processes and Monitoring

The main goal of TA3 is to set up a coherent process, monitor the progress of individual services and the appropriateness of the selection process. It also dynamically adapts this process to the needs of providers and users. This framework specifically serves TA1 and TA2 in their tasks of gathering consortia requirements for potential basic services. TA3 ensures the seamless operation of the decision-making process, compiles all necessary information, pre-screens, prepares evaluation reports and ensures the quality assurance of the applications. TA3 thus supports the Technical Expert Committee (TEC) and the consortia assembly to carry out the required decisions.

 

TA4 Project Governance

TA4 acts as the coordination and management structure with the NFDI association bodies and has a particular focus on decision-making for service initialisation, integration and operationalisation of services identified. This includes assistance of the TEC. At the same time it is Base4NFDI’s conduit to national and international research and infrastructure communities beyond the NFDI. TA4’s tasks also encompass project management including risk-, financial- and contract-management, project monitoring as well as conducting an external evaluation of the project’s progress and impact on NFDI and the German science landscape, far-reaching outreach activities and drafting of policy briefings with respect to long-term operating models for basic services.

Lars Bernard

Prof. Dr. Lars Bernard

Coordinator

(Co-)applicant institutions and Co-Spokespersons:

  • Dr. Thomas Schoerner-Sadenius – Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)
  • Sören Lorenz – GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
  • Regine Stein – University of Göttingen, Göttingen State and University Library
  • Dr. Brigitte Mathiak – GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
  • Dr. Bernhard Miller – GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
  • Dr. Sonja Schimmler – Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., FOKUS
  • Dr. Raphael Ritz – Max Planck Society, Max Planck Computing and Data Facility
  • Reinhard Altenhöner – Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz – Berlin State Library
  • Axel Klinger – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology University Library (TIB)
  • Prof. Dr. Lars Bernard – Technische Universität Dresden
  • Prof. Dr. Alexander Sczyrba – Bielefeld University
  • Prof. Dr. Juliane Fluck – ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences
TU Dresden

Technische Universität Dresden

Coordinating institution

(Co-)applicant institutions for the consortia

  • For BERD@NFDI: University of Mannheim
  • For DAPHNE4NFDI: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)
  • For DataPLANT: University of Freiburg
  • For FAIRAgro: Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF)
  • For FAIRmat: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • For GHGA: Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum
  • For KonsortSWD: GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
  • For MaRDI: Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics (WIAS)
  • For NFDI4Biodiversity: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen
  • For NFDI4BIOIMAGE: Heinrich Heine University
  • For NFDI4Cat: DECHEMA Society for Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
  • For NFDI4Chem: Friedrich Schiller University
  • For NFDI4Culture: Akademy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz
  • For NFDI4DataScience: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
  • For NFDI4Earth: Technische Universität Dresden
  • For NFDI4Energy: Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
  • For NFDI4Health: ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences
  • For NFDI4Immuno: Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum
  • For NFDI4Ing: RWTH Aachen University
  • For NFDI4Memory: Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG)
  • For NFDI4Microbiota: ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences
  • For NFDI4Objects: Deutsches Archaeological Institute
  • For NFDIxCS: University of Duisburg-Essen
  • For NFDI-Matwerk: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
  • For PUNCH4NFDI: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)
  • For Text+: Leibniz Institute for the German Language Mannheim (IDS)
Lars Bernard

Prof. Dr. Lars Bernard

Coordinator

TU Dresden

Technische Universität Dresden

Coordinating institution

(Co-)applicant institutions and Co-Spokespersons:

  • Dr. Thomas Schoerner-Sadenius – Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)
  • Sören Lorenz – GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
  • Regine Stein – University of Göttingen, Göttingen State and University Library
  • Dr. Brigitte Mathiak – GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
  • Dr. Bernhard Miller – GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
  • Dr. Sonja Schimmler – Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., FOKUS
  • Dr. Raphael Ritz – Max Planck Society, Max Planck Computing and Data Facility
  • Reinhard Altenhöner – Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz – Berlin State Library
  • Axel Klinger – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology University Library (TIB)
  • Prof. Dr. Lars Bernard – Technische Universität Dresden
  • Prof. Dr. Alexander Sczyrba – Bielefeld University
  • Prof. Dr. Juliane Fluck – ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences
(Co-)applicant institutions for the consortia:

  • For BERD@NFDI: University of Mannheim
  • For DAPHNE4NFDI: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)
  • For DataPLANT: University of Freiburg
  • For FAIRAgro: Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF)
  • For FAIRmat: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • For GHGA: Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum
  • For KonsortSWD: GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
  • For MaRDI: Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics (WIAS)
  • For NFDI4Biodiversity: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen
  • For NFDI4BIOIMAGE: Heinrich Heine University
  • For NFDI4Cat: DECHEMA Society for Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
  • For NFDI4Chem: Friedrich Schiller University
  • For NFDI4Culture: Akademy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz
  • For NFDI4DataScience: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
  • For NFDI4Earth: Technische Universität Dresden
  • For NFDI4Energy: Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
  • For NFDI4Health: ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences
  • For NFDI4Immuno: Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum
  • For NFDI4Ing: RWTH Aachen University
  • For NFDI4Memory: Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG)
  • For NFDI4Microbiota: ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences
  • For NFDI4Objects: Deutsches Archaeological Institute
  • For NFDIxCS: University of Duisburg-Essen
  • For NFDI-Matwerk: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
  • For PUNCH4NFDI: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)
  • For Text+: Leibniz Institute for the German Language Mannheim (IDS)