The National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) has the objective to systematically index, edit, interconnect and make available the valuable stock of data from science and research. So far, these data have mostly been available in a decentralised, project-related, or temporary form. The federation and the states will fund the NFDI jointly. Digital data storage is an indispensable prerequisite for treating new research issues, generating findings, and making innovations. The Joint Science Conference (GWK) has now decided to establish the NFDI Directorate in Karlsruhe and to entrust Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and FIZ Karlsruhe with the corresponding tasks in the complex foundation phase.
A central element of the NFDI will be consortia in which users and providers of research data interact with information infrastructure institutions. The NFDI will be a legal entity of its own and managed and coordinated by the Directorate and its office.
The Directorate will be located in the city center of Karlsruhe. The mandate of KIT and FIZ Karlsruhe will end as soon as the NFDI will be a legal entity of its own after extensive development work.
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