2024-31-01
Base4NFDI is growing! Kicking 2024-off with a freshly expanded team
Base4NFDI now supports development of basic services within NFDI with our new executive manager and a growing team of Service Stewards
Base4NFDI in a Nutshell: Base4NFDI is an initiative to create common and shared data services for the NFDI community. The goal is to underpin the activities within the NFDI disciplinary consortia by providing efficient NFDI-wide core services to support research data sharing. One of the main focus areas is to providedevelop a sustainable framework in which to roll out generic services as well as a coherent service landscape. These services will grow, develop and become permanent features of the NFDI landscape.
Three building blocks of development: Base4NFDI supports new services getting off the ground via a programme of financial support. Each service goes through three separate project phases: initialization, implementation and roll-out, during which all the NFDI consortia will have the opportunity to iteratively decide whether to each service should be supported each service in to the next stage. This will ensure basic data sharing needs of the consortia are met and guarantees a commitment to use the service.
Base4NFDI encourages potential services to integrate and adapt already existing component parts of the German research service landscape, as well as ensuring interoperability and connectivity with infrastructures outside of Germany, for example EOSC. Monitoring and refinement of the services through user feedback will be consistently developed and realized. Meanwhile, the Base4NFDI staff support with consulting and training materials for each service stage.
The team is growing: We now have a new Executive Manager, Najla Rettberg, who is based at TU Dresden as part of the Governance TA. You can get in touch directly with her here: Base4NFDI also has an up and running Office (link). For more information about the project structure, other points of contactother TAs, and who they are and what they do see here (link).
Support for implementation: We are also pleased to launch our Service Steward programme. We now have four well-qualified stewards whose remit is to accompany the services over their three stages and give relevant support for adoption and service integration. See who they are here (link tbc) and a concept document (link tbc).
An ear to the ground: At the same time, Base4NFDI is committed to keeping up to date with the Section activities and outputs, where ideas for potential services will derive from. It does this via three Section Liaisons who are now in place to become embedded in Section meetings and fully understand the potential for new services. See their names here: tbd
How can you contact the Base4NFDI team? Send an email to the Office here or to meet us, take a look at our website for our list of events where you can hear talks about Base relevant activities.
More information:
Base is transparent: You can see all abstracts of projects who applied in 2023 here. The three projects in the initializationin initialization and integration phase are here.
Up and running projects: More information about the individual projects: you can
read them here on the Base website. You can view the abstracts in our Zenodo
Where to meet us? Each of the ongoing projects will be presented regularly at the NFDI talks - stay tuned for the schedule. Remember to keep an eye out for our list of events.
Propose to us! If you are preparing for one of the next rounds (deadlines 15 February - 1 May - 1 August), feel free to reach out to us directly at this email address and we will give you individual support.
Base4NFDI is community-driven – we are here for you to work together to co-design these basic services for the whole of NFDI. We are here to listen and hear your ideas. We welcome your involvement!