Service Stewards play a crucial role in supporting the development and integration of basic services within NFDI. They facilitate collaboration between consortia, partner organizations, and sections, acting as requirement engineers and consolidating information for Base4NFDI, leveraging their domain-specific knowledge. Their role evolves as the process for each basic service advances:
Initialisation Phase: Service Stewards inform ongoing discussions in NFDI sections about basic services and provide information and prototypes of community solutions. They aggregate and monitor needs across consortia, assist in developing proposals, and support evaluation and reporting.
Integration Phase: Service Stewards aid in integrating services into NFDI consortia by securing institutional commitments, ensuring compliance, and arranging training. They assist section working groups in developing proposals, support evaluation and reporting, and supervise service levels while suggesting adjustments when necessary.
See below for all Base4NFDI Service Stewards with domain-specific expertise, which service they oversee and their contact info.
The concept of Service Stewards was also published on Zenodo (Feb 2024).
Contact all Service Stewards via email:
André is a software engineer specialised in compute and research data projects with comprehensive experience in cloud management in complex scientific infrastructure. In recent years, he supported the integration of services from various domains into existing cloud environments. As a service steward, he wants to ensure that services of federated storage and compute infrastructure find broad acceptance in the individual NFDI consortia.
Denise (Ph.D., Biology) is familiar with the research data management (RDM) of large heterogeneous datasets. From 2021 to 2023, she coordinated two RDM collaborative projects and provided trainings as well as consultations on this topic. During this period, she was also responsible for the institution's own implementation of a data management plan tool (RDMO) and was in charge of the technical and content-related project management.
Lydia (M.A., Sociology) has a great affinity with data and is familiar with both sides of research data management (RDM): as a user, she has collected and analyzed a wide variety of research data in (e.g.) social work, medical psychology and sociology. As a process manager, business administrator and service management coordinator, she has gained in-depth experience the past 5 years in data management, IAM processes and policies and product management.
Jana (B.A. Ethnology, Linguistics) is a Digital Humanities scientist and feels at home both in the analogue and digital world. Her expertise incorporates the whole research data cycle, from digitisation to long-term archiving. As a passionate cultural anthropologist, she is specialised in qualitative research and keeping different perspectives in view. Her work experience involves the facilitation and management of projects (e.g., change management, data protection) in a consulting agency as well as assistance in handling psychological research data for an Open Access publisher.
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