Speaker
Description
Evaluating the success and impact of research infrastructures is essential to guide their development in support of science, ensure alignment with Open Science principles and demonstrate their broader societal value. The German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI, Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur), a nationwide bottom-up approach to systematically manage and make research data accessible across disciplines, is developing a comprehensive roadmap to monitor its progress and impact.
In this presentation we will introduce NFDI and how its five governing bodies, 27 consortia (departments), 306 member organisations and over 1600 contributors along with other national and international partners “fuse forces to accelerate (open) science through (and also for) collaboration”.
Using NFDI as an example, we explore the opportunities, challenges and (innovative) ideas involved in building, developing, and sustaining a comprehensive monitoring and reporting system of a highly distributed and decentralized infrastructure. We discuss how to define and measure the success of a national research data infrastructure in ways that support evidence-based decision making and demonstrate value of public investments for research and society.
We aim to facilitate an open exchange of ideas with the audience and to learn from other initiatives and projects.
Tagline
A discussion of the German National Research Data Infrastructure unveiling how a decentralized, cross-disciplinary research infrastructure develops an approach to monitor its impact and demonstrate the value of Open Science for research and society.
| Keywords | NFDI Evaluation Indicators Monitoring |
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