Permanent tasks of the FDI Committee
The committee’s main task is to safeguard and continuously improve the research data infrastructure, which includes increasing the quality and quantity of available data and facilitating data access for researchers.
Working groups
Active working groups
Working group effort and costs
The “effort and costs” working group deals with the effort and costs incurred in research data centres (RDCs) when curating research data for reuse.
Completed working groups
Working group Accreditation and Participation Formats in the FDI Committee
The working group ‘Accreditation and Participation Formats in the FDI Committee’, jointly established by the RatSWD and the FDI Committee, focuses on the further development of the network and the exchange on topics related to research data infrastructure, as well as on revising the accreditation criteria for research data centres.
Permanent tasks
- Continuously improving the availability of information on nationally and internationally available data
- Facilitating access to research data
- Advancing methods of data production, data documentation, and data storage
- Further developing the research data infrastructure
- Developing a joint communication concept for RDCs
- Exchanging information and knowledge with accredited RDCs, for example, on best practice solutions
- Running a monitoring commission, which evaluates the annual reports from RatSWD-accredited RDCs and processes complaints from data users
- Publishing an annual activities report on RatSWD-accredited RDCs
- Reviewing accreditation applications of new RDCs and issuing recommendations for the German Data Forum (RatSWD),
- Intensifying international networking between German RDCs and their European and international partners