The National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) is an initiative of the Joint Science Conference of the federal and state governments. This is a digital, distributed infrastructure that provides science services and consulting services for the management of research data offer. The NFDI is funded by the federal government and countries in the period 2019–2028 with a funding of approximately 85 million euros per year. Up to 30 different consortia are supported. The approval is gradually carried out in three conveying rounds.
The NFDI is currently under construction. It arises from a process operated by science as a networked structure of self-initiative consortia. These consortia organize to ensure and sustainably design access and management to the research data relevant to them in a specific field or methodological manner. Their actors come from universities as well as non-university research institutions, departmental research institutions, academies, memory institutions and other publicly funded information infrastructure institutions. Consortia shall implement the following objectives:
- Sustainable, qualitative high-quality and systematic backup, development and use of research data on regional and networked knowledge storage
- Establishing a research data management according to the FAIR principles, which guarantee a quality standard of the data by finding the data (Findable), accessible (Accessible), interoperable (Interoperable) and reusable (Re-usable).
- Connecting and networking with international initiatives such as the European Open Science Cloud.
For a comprehensive effectiveness, networking and the claim of a common German NDFI, basic services contribute to ensuring the basic infrastructure for potentially all consortia and ensuring interoperability. The individual NFDI consortia should find themselves on cross-sectional issues and work on common solutions. As a superstructure of the NFDI, both an NFDI directorate and an association founded in October 2020 function.
The State Archives of Bavaria actively support the development and development of an NFDI and participate in several consortia. They bring their competencies in long-term storage, long-term archiving, the management of process-born data, the implementation of archiving interfaces as well as their own data stocks, and not least with their network in the field of archives and research institutions in the consortia. NFDI4Biodiversity (approved 2020), NFDI4earth (approved 2021), NFDI4Memory, NFDI4Objects, FAIRAgro and in the NFDI section “Common Infrastructures” in the long-term archiving working group.
More information can be found on the following pages:
https://www.dfg.de/foerderderderungs/programme/nfdi/
Contact:
Dr. Lina Hörl
Tel.: +49 (89) 28638-3035
E-mail: poststelle@gda.bayern.de