Data Stewardship goes Germany 2025

Session

Talks (joint session with FDM@Campus)

Oct 1, 2025, 11:00 AM

Vortragssaal (3rd floor / 3.OG) (KIT Library)

24. Building a Comprehensive Federated Network of RDM Helpdesks

Cord Wiljes (Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur (NFDI) e.V.), Judith Engel (Universität Bremen), Lukas Weimer (Universität Göttingen), Marcus Schmidt (ZALF e.V.), Marina Lemaire (Universität Trier), Martha Stellmacher (SLUB Dresden), Ralph Müller-Pfefferkorn (TU Dresden)

10/1/25, 11:00 AM

RDM helpdesks are the primary point of contact for researchers with questions about research data management (RDM). In RDM helpdesks, data stewards provide support in various formats, ranging from a first-level-support hotline to long-term complex consultancy. Data stewards are working at a wide range of institutions: universities (including clusters of excellence and collaborative research...

53. Basic Services for NFDI: Benefits for FDM initiatives, researchers and long-term perspectives (streamed from FDM@Campus in Göttingen)

Melina Jander

10/1/25, 11:20 AM

Background to Base4NFDI
Base4NFDI is a DFG-funded initiative, launched in 2023, and establishes a framework to provide cross-disciplinary services to drive FAIR practices to underpin the transition to open science in Germany and beyond. Through involving relevant stakeholders and leveraging the existing service infrastructure in Germany it ensures services’ suitability and adoption not...