Working together towards common goals: collaboration in sections
Although the individual NFDI consortia are dedicated to research data management in a wide variety of disciplines, such as the natural, cultural and social sciences, they have many topics in common.
Sections are legally dependent departments of the NFDI Association in which these cross-sectional topics are worked on across the boundaries of the consortia.
Cross-cutting issues are identified and prioritised with representatives of the consortia. The strategy-led process, initiated by the NFDI Directorate and the NFDI Consortium Assembly, can lead to the establishment of sections. In the sections, the association members work together to develop cross-consortium standards, metadata standards and formats.
Common InfrastructuresÂ
The aim is to create a multi-cloud-based infrastructure that can be used to exchange and share data, software and compute resources.
Section Concept Common Infrastructures
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 Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects
The section deals with ethical, legal and social issues in the context of data sharing. Among other things, topics include data protection and intellectual property rights.
Industry Engagement
The section deals with the organisation of cooperation between industry and NFDI. The goal is to develop new added values through coordinated collaborations.
(Meta)data, Terminologies, Provenience
Provenience
In order to ensure that research data can be reused efficiently, it must be described with metadata (e.g. author, licence, methodology). The section supports the development and establishment of shared standards.
Training & Education
Data literacy facilitates an increase in the quality of data as a resource and accelerates the acquisition of knowledge. To achieve this, the section develops and bundles training and further education programmes.
Further sections are expected to be established in a renewed strategy-led process.
More information on regulations and recommendations for the work in the sections can be found in the Section Guide (German).
Information on the individual sections can be found in the published section concepts, which can be found on our zenodo community page.
