Data Infrastructure NFDI. And as part of the NFDI family, I'm honored today to provide an overview of the NFDI, the NFDI Consortium and the activities of TIB within the NFDI to you. So let's look back a bit to the origin of the NFDI, the motivation and the

vision. In the recent years, it has become more urgent that we need a better research data management. So today's new research results are increasingly obtained by growing on

existing data. And the challenge is to find the matching data sets to understand it and to reuse it for your own purpose. And in Germany, a wide range of data services has been implemented locally at universities, non-university research institutions and other information infrastructure institutions over the past years to address these issues.

Nevertheless, we are still facing the same problems. Data is stored decentrally, we work with non-standardized metadata and we are missing processes to access the data quality. We are still at the very beginning of having a truly embedded research data management

when looking at the daily work of scientists. So we still need a change of our mindset. Under this impression, the German Council for Scientific Information Infrastructures published several white papers in the years 2016 to 2018, which resulted in the recommendations

to form a national research data infrastructure in Germany. To make most out of research data, the council recommended to federate existing infrastructures and services and to fill the

and systems. And so in December 2018, the government decided to fund this national research data infrastructure. And the exciting part is that the funding horizon is 10 years, divided into five plus five years, after which the situation will be reevaluated,

but the funding will continue. For the first five years, 70 million euro of funding in total were dedicated. And eventually after the first three selection rounds, up to 30 consortia in all areas of science will be funded. Each consortia will receive an

average of about 2.3 million euro per year. And the NFDI process is strictly oriented along the needs of the scientific community. It's a bottom-up approach and each scientific community should be represented by one and only one consortium, which represents all important

stakeholders of the scientific community. This is a quite unique non-competitive application process we never had so far in Germany. If you're interested in more details, especially about the review process of the NFDI, I can recommend the excellent introduction videos

by the German Research Foundation, DFG. The NFDI application process is divided into three rounds from 2019 to 2021. After an extensive review process, nine consortia of the first round

were announced in July 2020 by the German Joint Science Conference and started their work on October 1st, 2020. The 10 consortia of the second round were announced in July 2021 and have started the work a few years ago. You will see the distribution among the scientific disciplines

on the next slide in a second. Currently, the consortia of the third period finalize the proposals to be submitted on November 2nd of this year. And as you can see, the TRB was very successful in the two first application rounds. We are involved in three consortia of

the first round and three consortia of the second round, filling important positions as co-applicants. The NFDI consortia are quite well distributed between disciplines, although we currently see a slight focus on natural sciences as two consortia from physics and

from material sciences have been approved this year. But I think there will be a new distribution next year after the third round. Apart from the consortia working alongside each other, the funders have also decided to create an overarching organization, the NFDI

Association, as well as a directorate for the NFDI. This directorate is led by Professor and the foundation of the NFDI Association, again underlines the long-term commitment of the funding bodies to the NFDI. The association is composed of several bodies, which also includes

representatives of the German government and the federal states. And the aim of the NFDI Association is the development and the coordination of the overarching research data management in Germany, and therefore it coordinates the activities and

model rates between the funded consortia. Already during the formation process of the first NFDI consortia, we identified and discussed topics of common interest for many of the consortia and scientific disciplines. For example, these cross-cutting topics cover

collaborative governance, general frameworks, community or user involvement, technical infrastructures and concepts, and also legal and ethical aspects. As an outcome of this process, two declarations were published defining these cross-cutting topics, and how this could

be addressed to form an NFDI infrastructure. You can see them here, the Berlin Declaration and the Berlin Leipzig Declaration. A strategy workshop with the participants of the nine consortia of the first funding round then recommended a list of cross-cutting

topics under the guidance of the NFDI directorate. The results of the workshop led then to the foundation of the first four NFDI sections within the association in October of this year. These sections aim to coordinate the consortia activities on the different cross-cutting topics.

For example, sections will develop recommendations for standards or best practices which then can be adopted by our consortia. The discussion especially about the implementation of these cross-cutting topics as services needed for building the NFDI led to also to the idea of the

NFDI base services. These overarching base services address the needs of the majority of the consortia like PID services and NFDI-AI for authentication authorization across the network, terminology service or archiving. Again, these base services are considered to be

long-term commitments. They were first planned and recommended as part of the NFDI calls but are now outsourced to a separate grant beginning of next year probably. So in the last

minutes I would like to provide some insights about the constitution, the mission and the work plans of the consortium as shown before TIB is part of several consortia and I will provide a review overview of the chemistry consortium NFDI for Chem where TIB plays a major role.

You can see here on this slide the overview of the NFDI for Chem stakeholders. The consortium is built on three equally important pillars. First, the learned societies like the German Chemical Society, the Society for Pharmacological Chemistry and the Wundsen

Society for example. Second, the information infrastructure institutions like TIB, Fitzcarlsville for example. And third but most important the broad diversity of university, non-university institutions representing the scientific community and many sub-disciplines in chemistry. The tasks for the TIB or of the TIB include the

development of a terminology service, an overarching search service over data repositories in the NFDI for Chem, ontology development, standardization of metadata formats, coordination of cross-cutting topics and the first level support for the NFDI for Chem.

The vision of NFDI for Chem is the full digitization of data workflows from the earliest point in time in the lab to the final data publication based on open standards and tailored to the community needs. So starting from the experimental data in the lab we will

capture information in electronic lab notebooks in semantically rich form and together with data from the instruments enable also data processing and data analysis. From there FAIR and semantically rich data will be flowing first into local repositories and

at some point into public repositories intriguing to open standards so that they can be reused by everybody in the world and then trigger a new cycle of research activities. The terminology service I mentioned before plays a major role in our NFDI strategy.

Several other TIB projects and also our engagement in the cooperation of NFDI in CAIA-X and this can be or we see it as an example of a possible precursor of one of the NFDI-based services. With this short insight in one of the consorts here I would like to end my

presentation. Thank you very much for your attention and hopefully there will be some questions.