Infrastructures

The National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) aims to ensure the systematic management, long-term preservation, and accessibility of data across disciplines and countries according to the FAIR principles. The ZBW participates in the following consortia until 2026:

• Consortium for the Social, Educational, Behavourial and Economic Sciences (KonsortSWD)
• Consortium NFDI for Business, Economic and Related Data (BERD@NFDI)
• Consortium NFDI for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (NFDI4DataScience)

Access to a common cloud-based data space for science and business – that is the declared goal of FAIR Data Spaces.

The FAIR Data Spaces project aims to link Gaia-X and the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) by means of a demonstrator domain, creating a pilot dataspace for industry and research in compliance with the FAIR principles.

Building research data infrastructures is a field in which the ZBW has gained much experience in many previous projects.