Propose to us!

New Basic Services accepted for funding

round6-services

2024-10-14

Base4NFDI is delighted to announce that the following proposals have been accepted for funding following the Consortia Assembly’s decision!

Congratulations to the basic service teams!

This marks a growth in NFDI’s initiative to build basic services for consortia and demonstrates a step forward in the efforts to create RDM-enabling services from across the German research landscape.

RDMTraining4NFDI aims to create a modular collection of foundational RDM training materials. Access to these materials will enable consortia to efficiently develop their own community-specific adaptation of such training.

PID4NFDI aims to enhance the usability of existing PID systems for the NFDI by supporting improvements in technical and organisational interoperability, boosting metadata quality, and creating awareness through training and outreach programs.

TS4NFDI aims to provide a central access point to all terminologies and a suite of widgets that can be added to existing applications of the users. TS4NFDI supports cross-domain application, harmonisation, and curation of terminologies.

We are looking forward to what's ahead of us and encourage the NFDI community to join this endeavour by actively participating in the NFDI sections!

Announcement of the upcoming process evaluation of Base4NFDI

Base Evaluation Teaser

2024-09-24

Base4NFDI is constantly trying to improve its quality. As part of our ongoing quality assurance we have published a tender call for conducting a comprehensive evaluation of BaseNFDIs processes. The goal of the external evaluation is to assess the progress and outcomes of our initiative thus far, as well as to identify areas for improvement, ensuring that the infrastructure continues to effectively support the research community.

The results of the evaluation will serve as a basis for recommendations to improve the processes during the second half of the project, with the aim of enhancing the project's efficiency and success. Therefore the outcomes of the evaluation will be summarised in a final report, which will be published.

We are currently in the tender process to search for an external evaluation agency. The public tender can be viewed here. Please feel free to share it with potential providers.

Services Roadshow by Base4NFDI – Save the date!

Services RoadshowbyBase4NFDI2024

2024-08-13

Save the date already (!) to our new virtual series coming up on Dec 4, 2024 - the Services Roadshow by Base4NFDI!

Towards the end of the year 2024, it will be a great opportunity for all currently funded basic services under development to present themselves in 10 min + 5 min discussion to all of NFDI and everyone who’s interested!

Currently, we have seven services that will explain e.g., their service, target group, how we'll use it, and (plans for) connectivity to EOSC: 

  • IAM4NFDI
  • PID4NFDI
  • TS4NFDI
  • KGI4NFDI
  • DMP4NFDI
  • Jupyter4NFDI
  • nfdi.software
  • ..to be continued

Save the date – Dec 4, 2024, 2pm, online. Zoom link to be announced.

..and if this roadshow proves itself useful, we will install it permanently and consider to run it twice a year.

See you there!

Base4NFDI at PIDfest 2024 in Prague

 

PIDfest2024

2024-07-12

In June 2024, our Service Steward for PID4NFDI, Jana Tatscheck, visited the PIDfest in Prague at the Czech National Library of Technology (NTK), along with the PID4NFDI team. 

PIDfest is a newly established international conference series solely dedicated to persistent identifiers (PIDs), their usage, further development and community networking. This year it was hosted for three days by i.a., NTK and the ARDC (Australian Research Data Commons) and was the first of many PIDfests to come.

As PIDs are a working example of all FAIR principles, they are a vital piece of infrastructure and crucial for its implementation in Research Data Management (RDM) and Open Science. In addition to the persistence, PIDs' rich metadata are yet to be discovered and require more attention and awareness in the future.

The PID4NFDI team presented their project in context of the German national PID strategy pursued by the PID Network Deutschland e.V.  and discussed their ideas in multiple unconference sessions. Base4NFDI gladly expanded their knowledge about PIDs and network with other national initiatives beyond the NFDI. Base4NFDI was also happy to support our basic service teams on site and enjoyed the first in-person meeting with the team to discuss the current project and strengthen the team work. 

PIDfest, see you next time! 

 

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Impressions from the NTK's roof over the city (top) and the NTK's interior (bottom).