International Networking & Embedding

Our mission

Urgent global challenges (e.g. climate change, water scarcity, land-use change, pollution, natural hazards) require intensified national and international interdisciplinary efforts. Connections between different sub-disciplines and scientific approaches strengthen collaborative management of research data and knowledge extraction, ultimately leading to a new quality of science. Our mission is to interlink NFDI4Earth with international activities, networks and registries to capitalize on data-centered innovations and findings across research infrastructures and disciplines, and to increase the international visibility and awareness of NFDI4Earth.

FAIR principals and Open Science

NFDI4Earth supports and promotes efforts in harmonization of Earth System Science (ESS)-related Research Data Management (RDM) standards across Europe and the world. The implementation of a community data and metadata standards and regulations requires a coordinated international effort in cooperation with international societies, standardization bodies, networks and agencies.
Therefore, NFDI4Earth promotes both national and international community efforts to establish FAIR standards for data and machine-readable metadata, as well as Open Science standards, establishing Open Science as a norm.
The NFDI4Earth Newsletter is distributed to more than 60 partnering institutions and reaches thousands of readers. This contributes to a higher level of information for both users and providers of ESS services in Germany. In this context, we work closely with the Coordination Office.
To promote the common vision, NFDI4Earth developed a FAIRness and Openness Commitment. The NFDI4Earth Commitment supports the general principles of responsible evaluation outlined in internationally recognized commitments and goes beyond by embracing specific, actionable requirements tailored to ESS. These include compliance with geospatial regulations at national and EU levels, the use of open and permissive licenses for data and software to legally enable sharing, support for domain‐specific repositories, and collaboration with data curators and repository managers to ensure data is machine‑readable, interoperable and reusable. In this context, we work closely with  Measure 4.2: Towards a Cultural Change in ESS Research Data Management. The NFDI4Earth Commitment can be endorsed by the institutions and organizations involved and related to NFDI4Earth, and it can also be signed by individual researchers.

Living Handbook

The Living Handbook (LHB) provides a comprehensive, easy to understand, accessible and transparent documentation of the NFDI4Earth products, architecture, structure, services and innovations. Our team is part of the Living Handbook Editorial Board and has contributed helpful articles, such as How to cite data publications correctly, Recommendations for using ORCID iDand Research Organization Registry (ROR). In this context, we work closely with Measure 3.3: NFDI Commons.

User Support Network

The User Support Network (USN) is a distributed, cross-institutional service within NFDI4Earth that serves as a single point of contact for user requests that cannot be addressed via NFDI4Earth OneStop4All and require individual consultation. Our expertise focuses on data and software publication, unambiguous identification of physical samples and collections (International Generic Sample Number - IGSN), provided through GFZ Data Services - a curated research data repository and the Specialized Information Service for Geosciences (FID Geo).

In case you are sharing our overall goals and visions, please contact us!

Our reports

A comprehensive overview of all ESS relevant RDM networks and initiatives in which NFDI4Earth participants are active will be established and available (NFDI4Earth Deliverable D3.4.1) - Valentina Protopopova-Kakar, Florian Ott, Wolfgang zu Castell
NFDI4Earth Cooperation - re3data (NFDI4Earth Milestone MS3.4.1) - Stephan Frickenhaus, Jonas Grieb, Christin Henzen, Claudia Müller, Valentina Protopopova-Kakar, Claus Weiland   
Foster international participation through regular workshops and organising NFDI4Earth contributions to international conferences, workshops, etc. Provide an annual report about international Activities (NFDI4Earth Deliverable D3.4.4, reporting period: 15.03.2022 – 30.09.2023) - Valentina Protopopova-Kakar, Florian Ott, Wolfgang zu Castell (under publishing)
Foster international participation through regular workshops and organising NFDI4Earth contributions to international conferences, workshops, etc. Provide an annual report about international Activities (NFDI4Earth Deliverable D3.4.5, reporting period: 01.10.2023 – 30.09.2024) - Valentina Protopopova-Kakar, Christiane Schmidt, Wolfgang zu Castell (under publishing)
NFDI4Earth Fairness and Openness Commitment (NFDI4Earth Deliverable D4.2.1) - Lars Bernard, Peter Braesicke, Kirsten Elger, Kirsten, Frank Oliver Glöckner, Christina Habermehl, Dominik Hezel, Andreas Hübner, Carsten Keßler, Marthe Klöcking, Melanie Lorenz, Daniel Nüst, Najla Rettberg, Thomas Rose, Markus Schmalzl, Jörg Seegert, Monika Sester, Claus Weiland 
Establish relations with other national stakeholders in the NFDI4Earth context and work towards a common infrastructure for RDM in Germany (Research Data Commons) through regular workshops (NFDI4Earth Deliverable D3.3.4) - Thomas Rose, Dominik Hezel, Valentina Protopopova-Kakar, Michael Finkel
Establish relations with other national stakeholders in the NFDI4Earth context and work towards a common infrastructure for RDM in Germany (Research Data Commons) through regular workshops (NFDI4Earth Deliverable D3.3.5) - Jie Xu, Dominik Hezel, Christiane Schmidt, Michael Finkel

A full list of all contributions from our team, as well as the international contributions of NFDI4Earth members, can be found in the Annual reports on international NFDI4Earth activities (NFDI4Earth Deliverables D3.4.4, D3.4.5).

Melanie Lorenz
Kirsten Elger
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