Reaching for the Stars – Designing Open Science Services for all Scientific Disciplines

Research data infrastructures are essential for advancing open, connected, and sustainable science. A major challenge is developing cross-disciplinary, accessible, and interoperable solutions that support research data management while respecting domain-specific requirements. The German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI), a collaborative network of 26 consortia covering most scientific disciplines–from the humanities and social sciences to engineering and the life and natural sciences–, aims to address this by building a federated, sustainable infrastructure for research data across disciplines.

Base4NFDI is a joint initiative by all 26 NFDI consortia to develop essential basic services through a proposal-driven, bottom-up process, ensuring the overall coherence of emerging basic services and streamlining their development. They aim to benefit most or all consortia and their users, significantly enhancing the efficiency of the German research community. They encompass technical-organisational solutions, typically bundling existing services and are characterized by scalability and sustainable operating models, developed during the funding period in Base4NFDI.
This poster introduces the Base4NFDI project and examples of the basic services currently funded. Visitors are invited to discover our project and currently funded basic services with us! Next to outlining the decision-making process and how the development of the services is supported, e.g. with consulting and training, we are happy to discuss the challenges faced in the first two years and provide an outlook on questions regarding interoperability at an international level.