Common Infrastructure (INFRA)
The Section Common Infrastructures addresses the challenges of building shared, interoperable technical services that span NFDI consortia. Its working groups develop solutions for data integration, identity management, persistent identifiers, long-term preservation, electronic lab notebooks, data management planning, research software engineering, and more. The section acts as a coordination hub ensuring that infrastructure components developed across consortia are compatible, reusable, and aligned with FAIR principles.
This section documents shared services and technical building blocks enabling FAIR data across NFDI.
Use this page as the entry point for infrastructure topics, services, and operations.
Working Groups
| Working Group | Short | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Overall Architecture | OA | Federated blueprint for NFDI infrastructure |
| Data Integration | DI | Scalable methods for integrating heterogeneous data |
| Data Management Planning | DMP | Coordination of DMP tools and templates |
| Data Science and Artificial Intelligence | DSAI | FAIR digital objects, reproducible data analysis |
| Electronic Lab Notebooks | ELN | ELN evaluation, selection and deployment |
| Identity and Access Management | IAM | Federated digital identities and access control |
| Infrastructure and Data Security | IDS | GDPR compliance and information security |
| Long-term Access and Preservation | LTA | Long-term archiving of data and software |
| Multi-Cloud | MC | Federated multi-cloud architecture and IAM |
| Persistent Identifiers | PID | PID services aligned with FAIR principles |
| Research Software Engineering | RSE | Software infrastructure across NFDI consortia |