(Published on 13.12.2021; updated on 01.02.2022) Before the end of January, the German Research Foundation (DFG, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) plans to publish a call for proposals on basic services consortia. We have collected published information on basic services and other interesting publications around the topic in advance.
- Sep 2019: Berlin Declaration on NFDI Cross-Cutting Topics
- Jun 2020: Leipzig-Berlin-Declaration on NFDI Cross-Cutting Topics
- Nov 2020: 2nd statement NFDI-EG: The development of a National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI).
- Mar 2021: NFDI Cross-cutting Topics Workshop Report
- May 2021: DFG Call for proposals 2021 (3rd round of calls)
- Jul 2021: Statement of the NFDI Expert Panel on the preparation and application of basic services for the NFDI
- Oct 2021: Section concept Common Infrastructures
- Oct 2021: Section Concept Meta(data), Terminologies and Provenance
- Dec 2021: Timetable for the application of basic service consortia
- Jan 2022: Joint statement of the NFDI consortia
- Feb 2022: DFG call for proposals: Funding of NFDI-wide basic services
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