National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI)

« The “Conference on Research Data Infrastructures” (CoRDI) can be considered the “class reunion” of the German research data management (RDM) community: It brings brings together representatives of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) and its consortia, RDM practitioners, researchers, and representatives from politics and industry. (…) »

« Base4NFDI is a joint initiative of all consortia of the German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) to develop basic services that are potentially relevant to all consortia as well as the wider scientific community. Base4NFDI was launched in 2023 and is currently being funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)…

« All nine consortia from the first funding round will continue to receive funding. This was decided by the Joint Science Conference (GWK) on 4 July. The new funding period for the second project phase will begin in October for DataPLANT, GHGA, KonsortSWD, NFDI4Biodiversity, NFDI4Cat, NFDI4Chem, NFDI4Culture, NFDI4Health and NFDI4ING. The…

« The slides detail long-term preservation and archiving strategies in various consortia in the National Research Data Infrastructure (Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur, NFDI). They were provided and presented by representatives of the consortia NFDI4Culture, NFDIxCS, NFDI4Biodiversity, NFDI4Microbiota, FAIRAgro and NFDI4Objects in the workshop “Long Term Data Issues: Workshop about Preservation, Archiving and Access…

« Research Data Management (RDM) is a system for the effective handling of research data that enables scientists to structure their research questions and ensure best practices throughout the data lifecycle, from acquisition, computation and annotation to data publication and re-use. Data management plans (DMPs) are documents that formally set out…

« In order to gain an overview of the current state of the discussion on PIDs and for the identification of use cases for the initiation phase of a PID service within the NFDI basic services, the working group Persistent Identifier of the Section Common Infrastructures of the…

« On 4 November, the Joint Science Conference (GWK) passed the decision to fund seven more consortia and one initiative to provide basic cross-consortia services within the framework of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI). As in the two previous years, today’s decision by the GWK follows the recommendations put forward…

« Data literacy describes the ability to understand and implement the planned handling of digital data. It is therefore a requirement for effective research data management. One goal of the association National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) is to increase the data literacy of scientists. To this end, the project “Data…

« In our NFDI InfraTalk, scientists from different disciplines and consortia present exciting topics around NFDI and research data management. In this episode, Prof. Dr. Carsten Oliver Schmidt from the consortium KonsortSWD talk about data quality in the NFDI. (…) »

« Le gouvernement fédéral et les Länder ont créé l’Association National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) e.V. afin de promouvoir la gestion systématique et durable des données de recherche en Allemagne et de coordonner les structures existantes. À cette fin, jusqu’à 30 consortiums seront créés et mis en réseau, qui, avec…