2024-07-11

Base4NFDI is delighted to announce its International Advisory Board (IAB) is now in place. The board reviews the overall status of Base4NFDI and gives recommendations for the development and strategic operation. Internationalisation of the future Base services and interoperability within the Open Science landscape are some of the key objectives of Base4NFD, and the initiative has a dedicated set of activities to define and promote our services and outputs beyond national borders.

The world-renowned experts coming together in the IAB represent research commons and national data infrastructures, and bring a wealth of knowledge around critical issues such as EOSC and international interoperability. Carole Goble (University of Manchester), Hilary Hanahoe (Research Data Alliance), Rosie Hicks (Australian Research Data Commons), Klaus Tochtermann (Leibniz Information Centre for Economics), and Mark van de Sanden (SURF Data Preservation Services) have kindly agreed to be member of the IAB to provide strategic advice to Base4NFDI on status and development of our project.

The IAB has already initiated important conversations around strategic and technical interoperability, critical international networking, and building effective services. Base4NFDI is proud to have such an impressive group of experts operate as the IAB and we are very much looking forward to their valuable input and our future collaboration!