Nov 20 – 21, 2024
Fraunhofer FOKUS
Europe/Berlin timezone

Call for Contributions

  • Opening day
  • Submission deadline

Call for Contributions

Today, research data is often stored in many different places, difficult to find and only available for a limited time. The NFDI aims towards better findability, accessibility and reusability of research data. Base4NFDI integrates and establishes basic services as common, interoperable solutions. Already existing services are adapted or extended to be usable for researchers from other disciplines. This way, parallel developments are avoided - since many scientific fields have similar requirements for a number of research data management services.

The Base4NFDI User Conference is set up to become the focal point in the development of Basic Services in NFDI. It is used to present, discuss and operationalize current developments in the Basic Services funded via Base4NFDI as well as potential future Basic Services. The User conference programme welcomes participation from the NFDI community and beyond.

Members from sections and its working groups, consortia, Basic Services and beyond are invited to contribute to the discussion and participate in the event, with the long term goal of collaboratively shaping the service offering Base4NFDI can provide to both NFDI and the wider RDM landscape.

For that reason we ask to submit abstracts to demonstrate activities around Base4NFDI services.

Possible topics for abstracts:

  1. Contributions from the sections and its working groups to come up with Basic Service candidates (e.g. How could potential future Basic Services look like?)
  2. Basic Services, Basic Service incubators and networking activities (e.g. How are existing Basic Services developing in Initialisation and Integration stages? How can interoperability of Basic Services be ensured?)
  3. Contributions of the consortia to the (integration of) Basic Services – as well as other topics related to Base4NFDI (e.g. How can Basic Services be expected to be adopted by the NFDI community, and beyond?)
  4. Birds-eye view on the process phases in Base4NFDI (e.g. How could user involvement be shaped within Basic Service development?)

Formalities (applicable to the revised abstracts as well):
We request abstracts of a maximum of 500 words. Please use this template for submission (attach it to your submission!). Please submit the abstract here by (new!) May 29, 2024: https://events.gwdg.de/event/658/abstracts/
The review will be done in collaboration with the NFDI sections, the Base4NFDI Basic Services teams and the Base4NFDI staff, the decision will be made by the program chairs.

Accepted abstracts will either get a slot for

-a short talk in the main program or
-a lightning talk in the main program and a poster in the poster session.

At least one person from each submission is expected to attend the conference. Virtual participation is not possible.

Slides/Posters will be published on Zenodo after the conference. Accepted abstracts may be revised before publication and published on the conference page in advance.

Further details can be found here: https://events.gwdg.de/e/base4nfdi-uc4b2024

In case of any questions please contact base4nfdi-uc4b@lists.nfdi.de

The Program Chairs,
Reinhard Altenhöner, Raphael Ritz, Sonja Schimmler


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In case you face technical issues with the submission system, please submit your abstract via email.

The call for abstracts is closed.