The NFDI4Chem consortium is committed to the digitisation of all key steps in chemical research. Electronic laboratory notebooks enable the planning and documentation of experiments, transfer of research data from measuring devices and further processing and analysis. Seamless publication in data repositories of the NFDI4Chem federation makes the data findable and reusable. NFDI4Chem is simultaneously developing standards, ontologies and best practices for FAIR data in chemistry.
In NFDI4Chem, TIB develops and operates the search service across the NFDI4Chem data repositories, the NFDI4Chem terminology service and the helpdesk. TIB develops and curates important chemistry ontologies with international partners such as the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and the Royal Society of Chemistry. TIB also organises the annual international Ontologies4Chem workshop to harmonise ontology developments in chemistry.
Engineering is a very broad and diverse field of science. Establishing sustainable research data management is therefore a fundamental challenge. NFDI4ING is part of the German National Research Data Infrastructure and supports it by providing specific tools, standardisation and training, for example.
TIB focuses on the provision of a subject-specific terminology service (TS), the Open Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG) and the implementation of subject-specific training programmes. The NFDI4ING TS currently contains 92 ontologies that are offered for use in automated, consistent and formally verifiable tools for research data management.
The NFDI4Culture consortium is dedicated to RDM for cultural heritage in Germany. It aims to sustainably secure digital data and resources from areas such as art history, architecture, music, theatre and film studies, making them accessible and usable for research. NFDI4Culture develops services that are specifically tailored to the challenges and diversity of cultural data and promotes access to and re-use of digital cultural assets.
TIB activities include the creation of a modular, reusable toolset for user interaction with annotations in image, 3D and other cultural research data and the implementation of NFDI4Culture knowledge graphs in the form of a Wikibase instance.
NFDI4DataScience is dedicated to data science and artificial intelligence methods, with scientific information processing serving as the overarching vision for the entire consortium. It uses knowledge graphs to standardise metadata and enable trustworthy tools and services. The goal of NFDI4DataScience is to develop, build and maintain a national research data infrastructure for the data science and artificial intelligence community.
TIB activities include the development and expansion of the Open Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG) for interdisciplinary use in NFDI4DS as well as community building and data skills training
NFDI4Energy focuses on data and software in energy system research, which is necessary for research into pioneering technologies relating to the energy transition and the digitalisation of energy systems, among other things. This data is to be made traceable and reusable in the best possible way, from the initial project idea to the discourse with society and transfer to industry or politics.
The TIB is involved in the provision of infrastructure and cross-divisional services, including a Leibnitz Data Manager instance and the link to the Open Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG).
Base4NFDI is an initiative of all NFDI consortia aimed at developing and establishing reliable basic services. Together with the subject-specific consortia, Base4NFDI develops interdisciplinary services that support the use of research data across all disciplines. By adapting existing services, parallel developments are avoided and the German science system is systematically networked.
TIB's focus in this joint project is on co-designing and supporting the initialisation phase of basic services together with Fraunhofer FOKUS and Bielefeld University.
