Quality Time: Rethinking Data Trust in the Age of AI and (Cross-Domain) Collaboration

This document summarizes the 90-minute workshop “Quality Time: Rethinking Data Trust in the Age of AI and Cross-Domain Collaboration”, held during the NFDI4Earth Plenum 2025. The workshop combined introductory keynote talks with an interactive World Café to explore interdisciplinary approaches to research data quality, the role of AI in quality assurance, transparent quality cultures, and mechanisms for translating quality concepts across domains. 

Key messages include the urgent need for scalable, AI-ready data quality procedures, shared principles for communicating uncertainty, and practical blueprints that help communities operationalize interoperable, trustworthy, and purpose-specific data quality across domains.