Exploring NOMAD Oasis as a Cross-Consortia Research Data Management Service for NFDI
Authors: 
Joseph F. Rudzinski^1*, and The FAIRmat Team^1
*Lead presenter
^1joseph.rudzinski@physik.hu-berlin.de, Physics Department and CSMB, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

Abstract: 
As research becomes increasingly data-intensive and AI-driven, scientific workflows benefit from research data management (RDM) platforms with rich semantic data models, provenance tracking, automated data ingestion and validation, workflow integration, and machine-actionable interfaces. Across the NFDI, consortia have developed diverse and complementary RDM services including ontologies, workflows, and specialized applications, reflecting the priorities and requirements of their respective communities. As a result, a reusable and interoperable platform that can be readily adapted to different scientific communities may represent a valuable cross-cutting capability for the broader NFDI landscape.
This contribution presents NOMAD Oasis, originally developed within the FAIRmat consortium, as a reusable scientific data platform that addresses these common requirements and enables research groups and institutes to deploy RDM infrastructures that are fully customizable to domain-specific research through a modular plugin architecture. Adopters can leverage the growing collection of community-developed capabilities within the NOMAD ecosystem to lower the effort to establish advanced RDM solutions. At the same time, new developments contribute back to the shared ecosystem, creating a virtuous cycle that lowers adoption barriers for future communities.
This presentation will explore how NOMAD Oasis can complement existing NFDI base services, drawing on experiences from FAIRmat, neighboring research communities, and proof-of-concept applications completely outside of the scientific realm.

Keywords: Deployable RDM Platform; Extensible Software Components; Interoperability; Machine-Actionable Metadata; Open Software Ecosystem