About us
NFDI4Chem is building an open and FAIR infrastructure for research data management in chemistry. The consortium consists of dedicated data producers and users from university and non-university research, infrastructure institutions and learned societies like the German Chemical Society (GDCh), Bunsen Society and the German Pharmaceutical Society (DPhG). NFDI4Chem intends to represent all disciplines of chemistry in academia. NFDI4Chem’s vision is to digitize all key steps in chemical research to support scientists in their efforts to collect, store, process, analyse, disclose and re-use research data.
Measures to promote Open Science and Research Data Management (RDM) in agreement with the FAIR data principles are fundamental aims of NFDI4Chem to serve the chemistry community with a holistic concept for access to research data. To this end, the overarching objective is to develop and maintain a national research data infrastructure for the research domain of chemistry in Germany, and to enable innovative and easy to use services and novel scientific approaches based on re-use of research data. In the initial phase, NFDI4Chem focuses on data related to molecules and reactions including data for their experimental and theoretical characterisation.
Goals
- Virtuelle Umgebung von föderierten Repositorien für Forschungsdaten in der Chemie
- Internationale Community-Prozesse zur Etablierung von Standards für Mindestangaben und offene Daten in der Chemie
- Kultureller und digitaler Wandels hin zu „Smart Laboratory Environments“
- Bewusstsein und Akzeptanz für FAIRes Datenmanagement in der chemischen Gemeinschaft
- Förderung von Synergien und bereichsübergreifenden Entwicklungen innerhalb der NFDI
- Rechtlich verlässlicher Rahmen von Richt- und Leitlinien für FAIRes FDM
Task Area
TA1
Management: financial and organisational management of the project.
TA2
Smart Laboratory (SmartLab): implementation and adaptation of existing and development of missing IT components in a flexible work environment, enabling early capture of data as well as management, analysis and storage of associated information.
TA3
Repositories: reliable storage, dissemination and archival of all relevant research data at each stage of the data lifecycle.
TA4
Standards: specification and documentation of standards required for archival, publication and exchange of data and metadata, together with reference implementations and data validation.
TA5
Community und Training: collection, analysis and response to community requirements as well as dissemination and training on all levels, starting in early undergraduate studies.
TA6
Synergies: coordination of NFDI4Chem activities with other NFDI consortia and harmonization with international bodies (topics include cross-domain metadata standards, semantic data annotation with ontologies, provision of terminology services as well as legal aspects of FAIR RDM).
Prof. Dr. Christoph Steinbeck
Speaker of the consortium
Dr. Oliver Koepler
Speaker of the consortium
University of Jena
Applicant institution
(Co-)applicant institutions and (co-)speakers:
- TIB – Leibniz-Informationszentrum Technik und Naturwissenschaften Universitätsbibliothek
- Dr. Nicole Jung & Dr. Felix Bach -Karlsruhe – Institut für Technologie (KIT)
- Matthias Razum – FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz-Institut für Informationsstruktur
- Dr. Steffen Neumann – Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzenbiochemie (IPB)
- Prof. Dr. Sonja Herres-Pawlis – RWTH Aachen
- Dr. Johannes Liermann – Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (JGU)
Participating Institutions
- Belstein-Institut
- Deutsche Pharmazeutische Gesellschaft e.V.
- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
- Georg-August-Universität
- Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker e.V.
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
- Universitätsbibliothek der TU Braunschweig
- Technische Universität Dortmund
- Technische Universität Dresden
- Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung GmbH – UFZ
Prof. Dr. Christoph Steinbeck
Speaker of the consortium
Dr. Oliver Koepler
Applicant institution
University of Jena
Applicant institution
(Co-)applicant institutions and (co-)speakers:
- TIB – Leibniz-Informationszentrum Technik und Naturwissenschaften Universitätsbibliothek
- Dr. Nicole Jung & Dr. Felix Bach -Karlsruhe – Institut für Technologie (KIT)
- Matthias Razum – FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz-Institut für Informationsstruktur
- Dr. Steffen Neumann – Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzenbiochemie (IPB)
- Prof. Dr. Sonja Herres-Pawlis – RWTH Aachen
- Dr. Johannes Liermann – Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (JGU)
Participating Institutions
- Belstein-Institut
- Deutsche Pharmazeutische Gesellschaft e.V.
- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
- Georg-August-Universität
- Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker e.V.
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
- Universitätsbibliothek der TU Braunschweig
- Technische Universität Dortmund
- Technische Universität Dresden
- Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung GmbH – UFZ
