FIZ Karlsruhe successful in the first funding round of the NFDI

At the Joint Science Conference (Gemeinsame Wissenschftskonferenz, GWK) on 26 June 2020, the Federal Government and the federal states decided to fund nine consortia in the NFDI (National Research Data InfrastructureI). FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure is involved as co-applicant in two consortia, namely the Consortium for Research Data on Material and Immaterial cultural heritage (NFDI4Culture) and the Chemistry Consortium in the NFDI (NFDI4Chem).

For further information, please read FIZ Karlsruhe´s press release

RADAR is represented as a generic infrastructure in both consortia. In addition, FIZ Karlsruhe will also contribute to the two consortia in other task areas, for example with legal expertise or expertise on knowledge graphs.

Although the focus of the NFDI is on subject or format-specific repositories, there are not suitable solutions for all data types, and archiving is not always considered. Generic repositories such as RADAR play an important role in the NFDI context as "catch-all solutions". Furthermore, they offer an institutional solution to prove their own scientific output. In this case, interoperability with the NFDI must be supported in both directions. Interoperability with the NFDI is enforced in RADAR by implementing interfaces, considering recommended data types and supporting subject specific metadata.