Participation in the Incubator Cycle of the NFDI Basic Service DMP4NFDI

We are very pleased to be an active part of the current incubator cycle of DMP4NFDI (Data and Software Management Planning Services for NFDI). The project runs from July through December 2026 and is run together with DMP4NFDI, NFDI4Chem, and NFDI4Culture.

DMP4NFDI is an NFDI basic service that supports the development and provision of standardized services for data and software management plans within the NFDI. For this purpose, DMP4NFDI develops and operates services related to the Research Data Management Organizer (RDMO), among other things, and promotes its integration with other research data infrastructures.

As part of the incubator project, we are working together to further develop and optimize the integration between RDMO and RADAR. The goal is to transfer metadata already included in data management plans as seamlessly as possible into RADAR’s publication workflow. By doing so, we aim to reduce duplicate entries and further improve the quality and consistency of the metadata.

The project partners are responsible for different tasks. We from the RADAR team review and optimize the metadata mappings and the transfer workflows. DMP4NFDI and the RDMO development team continue to develop the RDMO-RADAR plugin and provide test environments. NFDI4Chem and NFDI4Culture contribute their subject-specific requirements and RDMO questionnaires to the project.

The starting point for the incubator project are our two free publication services for subject communities: RADAR4Chem and RADAR4Culture. However, the solutions developed are to be designed in such a way that they can also be used by other NFDI consortia and generic RDMO instances in the future. We will report on the project’s results after the incubator has concluded.

Further information on the current DMP4NFDI incubator cycle can be found on the project-specific DMP4NFDI Incubator Dashboard.