How is Base4NFDI organised?
Base4NFDI is a joint initiative of all consortia within the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) to foster and establish reliable NFDI-wide basic services. Therefore, various groups and individuals within the initiative are working together to build a network for the ongoing identification, support, development, operation and evaluation of NFDI-wide basic services.
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Base4NFDI consists of four task areas (TAs), which guide and support the applicants as they go through the different phases (Initialization, Integration and Ramping Up) of developing the basic services. Each task area is represented by three co-spokespersons managing the task areas. Jointly, all co-spokespersons take responsibility for the overall work programme. Together they form the Management Committee. It is in charge of interlinking the strategic decisions made by the NFDI Association bodies with the operative elements in Base4NFDI. The co-spokespersons are experienced experts representing infrastructure and different scientific domains.
TA1 will support all activities in the NFDI sections and its WGs related to identifying potential basic services and preparing proposals for service initialization. TA1 helps to enter the initialization phase and will be backing a requirements analysis across consortia and prospective users, software evaluation and service design. All steps take place in close cooperation with the sections of the NFDI Association.
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Axel Klinger
TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology
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Sonja Schimmler
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., FOKUS
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Alexander Sczyrba
Bielefeld University
Tilman Wittenhorst
TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology
Jana Plomin
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., FOKUS
After a successful initialisation phase of a basic service candidate, Task Area 2 takes care of the following phases of integration and ramping-up. For service improvement, measures are taken to improve software quality and user acceptance.
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Sören Lorenz
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
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Brigitte Mathiak
GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
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Raphael Ritz
Max Planck Society, Max Planck Computing and Data Facility
Christian Schäfer-Neth
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Tianying Chen
GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
The main goal of TA3 is to set up a coherent process, monitor the progress of individual services and the appropriateness of the selection process. It also dynamically adapts this process to the needs of providers and users. This framework specifically serves TA1 and TA2 in their tasks of gathering consortia requirements for potential basic services. TA3 ensures the seamless operation of the decision-making process, compiles all necessary information, pre-screens, prepares evaluation reports and ensures the quality assurance of the applications. TA3 thus supports the TEC and the consortia assembly to carry out the required decisions. The Section Liaison Officers directly support the work of the Sections in matters directly related to preparing basic services development strategies, decisions and monitoring.
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Reinhard Altenhöner
Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz – Berlin State Library
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Juliane Fluck
ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences
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Thomas Schoerner-Sadenius
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)
Christian Mogwitz
Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz – Berlin State Library
Sandra Zänkert
ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences
Annette Strauch-Davey
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)
TA4 acts as the coordination and management structure with the NFDI association bodies and has a particular focus on decision-making for service initialisation, integration and operationalisation of services identified. This includes assistance of the TEC. At the same time it is Base4NFDI’s conduit to national and international research and infrastructure communities beyond the NFDI. TA4's tasks also encompass project management including risk-, financial- and contract-management, project monitoring as well as conducting an external evaluation of the project’s progress and impact on the NFDI and the German science landscape, far-reaching outreach activities and drafting of policy briefings with respect to long-term operating models for basic services. Last but not least we consult Base4NFDI projects with regards to user enablement & training.
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Lars Bernard
Technische Universität Dresden
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Bernhard Miller
GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
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Regine Stein
University of Göttingen, Göttingen State and University Library
Najla Rettberg
Technische Universität Dresden
Franziska Fritzsche
GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Melina Jander
University of Göttingen, Göttingen State and University Library
Antje Manske
GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Lukas Weimer
University of Göttingen, Göttingen State and University Library
Xenia Ritter
University of Göttingen, Göttingen State and University Library
The Technical Expert Committee (TEC) is a body created by Base4NFDI. The TEC It ensures the overall coherence, robustness and scalability of services developed within Base4NFDI. It is in charge of evaluating proposals for basic service candidates in terms of technical quality, interoperability with existing solutions, suitability of the partner organisations suggested and the financial calculations provided. The TEC consists of a group of infrastructure professionals appointed by the consortia assembly.
Service stewards are central positions implemented in Base4NFDI. Once appointed they will ensure a smooth interplay between the sections, participating consortia and partner organisations involved in the development of a service. They scout the infrastructure landscape with regard to potential service candidates and survey requirements of the researchers in the different domains. They consolidate this information according to criteria defined by the sections. At later stages of the process they support the rollout of services and the integration of services into the existing infrastructure landscapes of the consortia. They are critical to efficient adaptation of basic-services as the consortia will often need additional support for integrating a basic service with their existing service portfolio or do not have the resources and or expertise for adopting a new service.
See the Service Stewards' page for more information.
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Service Steward
RWTH
Federated access
Lydia Niksch
Service Steward
University Leipzig
Federated access
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Service Steward
DNB
Semantic interoperability & reusability
André Giesler
Service Steward
FZ Jülich
Federated storage & compute-infrastructure
Denise Jäckel
Service Steward
HU Berlin
Data literacy & data management support
Jana Tatscheck
Service Steward
ZPID
Data management,
ingest & archival
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Service Steward
University Mannheim
Data protection & anonymisation
