Base4NFDI – Requirements for Completion of Initialisation Phase

Base4NFDI is a joint initiative within NFDI (National Research Data Infrastructure Germany), a bottom-up and cross-disciplinary effort to improve research data management and building on 26 communities organised in consortia. Base4NFDI creates a framework for a user-driven and quality-assured portfolio of basic services. It builds on existing solutions that are interoperable with the EOSC infrastructure and follow its guidelines.

Once a potential basic service has passed the formal acceptance criteria, it enters the initialisation phase. Several steps need to be taken and documented to complete this phase.

This document guides teams through the requirements of the initialisation phase by providing a common framework, explaining the support options provided by Base4NFDI and describing the mandatory documentation to be produced.

Please also have a look at the other guidance materials for the initialisation phase, namely

• Base4NFDI – What is expected for each phase
• Base4NFDI – HowTo: Reporting in Initialisation Phase
• Base4NFDI – Persona Creation Kit
• Base4NFDI – User Story Guide
• Base4NFDI – Service Documentation Guide
• Guidelines for a Short Overview of a Basic Service at the End of the Initialisation Phase
• Service Evaluation Guide
• Service Design Guide + 20 Questions about Service Design
• Toolkit for Requirements Analysis Strategy
• Toolkit for Harmonizing Piloting and Testing Strategies