NFDI4Earth - Objectives

Involvement

Active and continuously committed ESS stakeholders from the NFDI4Earth community and develop FAIR and Open RDM capacities in the German ESS in a community driven process.

FAIRness

Enable students, scientists, lecturers, infrastructure providers and other professionals in ESS to feed and utilize an open and sustainable research data life cycle and facilitate a cultural change towards a FAIR and collaborative RDM and open and reproducible ESS.

Guidance

Establish a set of common principles, rules, standards and guidance for ESS researchers and as a qualification framework for NFDI4Earth research data, services, and infrastructures.

Long-term

Consolidate research data services in ESS and develop long-term perspective and strategy.

Playground

Scrutinize the potential of existing and novel solutions (machine learning, interactive computations, model-data integration, and visual analytics) in a sandbox approach, continuously improving data-driven ESS research processes, to advance NFDI4Earth towards a collaborative environment for data analytics

NFDI

Contribute strongly and coherently to the overall development of the NFDI and ESS-related RDM in Germany, crosslink and interact with other NFDI consortia and develop a sustainable long-term operation model for NDFI4Earth embedded in the NFDI.

Showcases

Showcase examples of best practices on innovative data science approaches and tools in support of interdisciplinary research

Research

Establish NFDI4Earth as an integral part of international research data infrastructures and get at the forefront within international ESS RDM developments.

Objectives

NFDI4Earth will provide simple, efficient, open, and – whenever possible – unrestricted access to all relevant Earth system data, scientific data management and data analysis services. Major implementation guidelines are the FAIR principles which do impact the whole research data life cycle.