Four Task Areas and One Common Goal
Base4NFDI consists of four Task Areas (TA) which guide and support the basic services as they go through the different phases (Initialisation, Integration, and Ramping Up) of development. Our goal is to build and maintain a sustainable Service Portfolio.
See all Task Areas described below and their contact details!
Each Task Area is represented by three Co-Spokespersons and staff. Jointly, all Co-Spokespersons take responsibility for the overall work programme and form the Management Committee. The Co-Spokespersons are experienced experts representing infrastructure and different scientific domains. Each Co-Spokesperson employs one staff position. TA4 employs one additional staff position and one executive manager (Najla Rettberg) and nominates the coordinator (Lars Bernard).
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TA1 will support all activities in the NFDI sections and its WGs related to identifying potential basic services and preparing proposals for service initialisation. TA1 helps to enter the initialisation phase and will be backing a requirements analysis across Consortia and prospective users, software evaluation, and service design. All steps take place in close cooperation with the sections of the NFDI Association.
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After a successful initialisation phase of a basic service candidate, Task Area 2 takes care of the following phases of integration and ramping-up. For service improvement, measures are taken to improve software quality and user acceptance.
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The main goal of TA3 is to set up a coherent process as well as monitor the progress of individual services and the appropriateness of the selection process. It also dynamically adapts this process to the needs of providers and users. This framework specifically serves TA1 and TA2 in their tasks of gathering Consortia requirements for potential basic services. TA3 ensures the seamless operation of the decision-making process, compiles all necessary information, pre-screens, prepares evaluation reports, and ensures the quality assurance of the applications. TA3 thus supports the TEC and the Consortia assembly to carry out the required decisions. The Section Liaison Officers directly support the work of the Sections in matters directly related to preparing basic services development strategies, decisions, and monitoring.
See also Section Liaison Officers
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Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz – Berlin State Library
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ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences
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Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)
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TA4 acts as the coordination and management structure with the NFDI association bodies and has a particular focus on decision-making for service initialisation, integration, and operationalisation of services identified. This includes assistance of the TEC. At the same time it is Base4NFDI’s conduit to national and international research and infrastructure communities beyond the NFDI. TA4's tasks also encompass project management including risk-, financial- and contract-management, project monitoring as well as conducting an external evaluation of the project’s progress and impact on the NFDI and the German science landscape, far-reaching outreach activities, and drafting of policy briefings with respect to long-term operating models for basic services. Last but not least we consult Base4NFDI projects with regards to user enablement & training.
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Technische Universität Dresden
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GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
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University of Göttingen, Göttingen State and University Library
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