In order to fulfill its goals, the NFDIxCS consortium addresses the following issues:
- NFDIxCS will promote the implementation of the FAIR data principles for CS research data and software artifacts, simplify the citation of software and CS data, and thus modernize the publication processes and culture of both CS and its applications. NFDIxCS provides a forum for the discussion of CS research data formats, metadata formats and semantics. It will work towards generally accepted standards, in particular for the sustainable storage, retrieval and availability of CS research data.
- NFDIxCS will, in collaboration with other scientific disciplines, support the application of CS methods such as Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. In addition, the operation of such systems generates large amounts of data, e.g. in the areas of high performance computing and computer architecture, which in turn will contribute to the further development of genuine CS methods.
- NFDIxCS will share the experience and knowledge of the CS community on system architectures, processes, standards for interoperability, data-oriented scientific publication and communication systems with all interested scientific disciplines / consortia in the NFDI family.
The key principle in NFDIxCS is to assemble an organizational and technical, cooperative and interoperable infrastructure to join the available forces of relevant services and actors from and for CS. For this purpose, we use a qualitative content analysis to empirically derive the requirements of the subdisciplines from their profile descriptions and transfer these into a service infrastructure. The developed services will be designed for sustainable operation. This is accompanied by targeted means of community development, i.e. to drive a cultural change, to support young academics, to negotiate practices and norms, and to develop the competencies for a responsible treatment of research data. The existing structure of the GI (Gesellschaft für Informatik) – comprising related specialist groups and communication channels – in combination with other partners at a national, European and international level will provide the organizational core for these efforts.
Keyfacts
Funding agency: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Programme: Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur (NFDI)
Amount of funding: 1,7 Mio. EUR (Total amount 12,5 Mio. EUR)
Funding period: 03/2023 - 02/2028
Project website:https://nfdixcs.org/
Contact person
Universitätsprofessor
Prof. Dr. Michael Goedicke
Specification of Software Systems (S3)
45127 Essen
Germany
Phone: | +49 201 183 3481 |
E-mail: | michael.goedicke@s3.uni-due.de |
Room: | S-GW 206 |
Partners
- Universität Duisburg-Essen (UDE)
- Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH (DFKI)
- Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum GmbH
- FIZ Karlsruhe Leibniz-Institut für Informationsinfrastruktur GmbH (FIZ KA)
- Forschungszentrum Jülich
- Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI)
- Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen
- Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
- Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
- Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (LZI)
- Technische Universität Darmstadt
- Technische Universität Dresden
- Technische Universität München (TUM)
- Universität Bayreuth
- Universität Hamburg
- Universität Paderborn
- Universität Potsdam
- Universität Stuttgart
- Verein zur Förderung eines Deutschen Forschungsnetzes e. V.