Welcome to the
12th Base4NFDI newsletter!
Every two months we will share the latest updates about upcoming Base-relevant events and presentations, insights into the basic service development, and notify you about interesting resources to keep you informed and inspired.
Thank you for your support this year and being part of our community.
Meet
us
- PID4NFDI
Workshop: Building Confidence with Research Metadata at Scale, Jun. 15, 2006, 10 am-12
pm, online
- 5th
Text+ Plenary 2026, Jun. 15-16, 2026, Mannheim
- FAIRmat
Project Meeting, Jun. 17-19, 2026, Berlin
- Base4NFDI
Fireside Chat Interview with Rosie Hicks, Jun. 18, 2026, 10h CEST, online
- IAM4NFDI
Community Workshop, Jun. 18, 2026, 2-5 pm, online via Zoom.
- Data4Society:
10th Conference on Social and Economic Data, Jun. 22-23, 2026, Berlin
Brief updates from the basic services
- IAM4NFDI published the Deliverable 1.5.int:
Updated VO Concept – A Case Study on the Implementation of Advanced Requirements for Access Management on Zenodo.
- The service has published their Integration Phase Achievements on the Base4NFDI
website.
- IAM4NFDI has planned an online
Community Workshop for June 18, 2-5 pm. Participate to learn about practical solutions
like Virtual Organisations (VOs) and integration scenarios around AcademicID, didmos, RegApp, Unity, and InfraProxy — and exchange experiences with others across the NFDI landscape. No registration required – you can join the meeting directly via Zoom.
- TS4NFDI submitted a proposal for the Ramp-up Phase on 22 April.
- A success story from TS4NFDI and the repository RADAR is now published on the NFDI
website.
- On April 22, PID4NFDI submitted its proposal for the Ramp-up phase, receiving a strong 69% approval
from the consortia. While this demonstrates substantial backing, it missed the 75% threshold required to move on in the Basic-Service process. The threshold is designed to measure relevance across almost all communities. As many NFDI participants already rely
on existing PID-related solutions and practices, additional support through a Basic Service was not viewed as sufficiently urgent by a large-enough group. This outcome should not be seen as a reflection of the initiative’s outstanding contributions, many of
which are already broadly used within NFDI. Base4NFDI has greatly appreciated this collaboration that will continue until the end of 2026. While PID4NFDI cannot proceed to become a Basic Service, the results it has already produced will support the communities
that still need the help PID4NFDI provided. More information on these reusable results will be shared after finishing their Integration phase. As already announced, Base4NFDI is currently developing a new flexible, modular model to offer targeted support and
smaller-scale funding. Base4NFDI warmly invites the PID4NFDI team to stay involved by submitting smaller work packages under this new framework which will be shared with more details later this month.
- Join the PID metadata online workshop on June 15, 2026 from 10-12h CEST! PID4NFDI brings together beginners
and experienced practitioners to explore how DOI metadata can be queried, assessed, and put to work using the DataCite API — turning everyday institutional questions into concrete, reproducible insights. Programme
and link to register.
- PID4NFDI has held an NFDITalk on 18 May 2026 to introduce their PID4NFDI Service Components.
You can find the recording on Youtube.
- On June 4, PID4NFDI organised a community workshop on IGSN use cases to gather feedback on the upcoming
guidelines and supporting materials for using IGSNs within NFDI. If you would like to provide feedback and review the material, you can find all relevant information and discussion points in this online
pad.
- PID4NFDI will participate in the PIDfest,
which will take place in Leiden, the Netherlands, from October 27 to 29, 2026.
- The basic service proposal from KGI4NFDI has been accepted for funding of the Integration phase following
the Consortia Assembly’s decision. The Integration phase will start later in Summer 2026.
- Consulting sessions for the service will run throughout the summer – every third Wednesday of the month
at 3 PM. For meeting information check out the service website.
- The team was invited to present the service – and its Integration proposal – at the last NFDI4DataScience
Consortium meeting. The community’s feedback included balancing between the different community
requirements represented in the KGI Registry – in terms of (metadata) breadth and depth – and potential generalizability, as well as validation considerations for the KGs that are part of this registry.
- The DMP4NFDI Training Guideline – How to Plan and Run a Workshop on Data Management Plans is now available
on Zenodo.
- The 2nd Call for Incubators closed at the end of April. 4 new Incubator Projects will start in July
with focus on Service Integration, DMP Template Development and Support for Outreach & Training (updates will follow in the next newsletter(s)).
Check all projects on the team’s incubator
dashboard
- On 28 and 29 May, the RDMO Hackathon took place at the University of Bremen, organised by GFBio. The
DMP4NFDI team took part in the Hackathon. The various working groups focused, among other things, on the integration of Software Management Plans and the NFDI DMP Template Framework. Other topics covered included AI skills and the use of AI agents, improving
export functions for views from RDMO, and complex attribute mapping. In doing so, the DMP4NFDI team was not only able to take away important learnings from but also to contribute significantly to the experience of working with the consortia on DMPs and RDMO.
- Jupyter4NFDI presented their service in a Demo Session on May 5. The recording of the session is now
online on Youtube.
- The basic service proposal from RDMTraining4NFDI has been accepted for funding of the Integration phase
following the Consortia Assembly’s decision. RDMTraining4NFDI’s Integration phase will start in August 2026. Until then the basic service will not be able to carry out any operational activities. Requests still can be sent via their mailing
lists. They will be addressed as soon as possible once the basic services resumes.
Thank you for your understanding.
- The RDMTraining4NFDI Report on the evaluation of certification types and processes is published on Zenodo.
- The service has published the Concept of the RDMTraining4NFDI Hybrid Event on Research Data Management
for NFDI Consortia on Zenodo.
- Apologies – due to technical difficulties, the RDMT4NFDI demo session on April 14 could not be completed.
The team will host another session in autumn for their Integration phase. RDMTraining4NFDI has presented their results of the Initialisation Phase at the section EduTrain and published their presentation slides and speaker notes on Zenodo.
- The service has published their Initialisation Phase Achievements on the Base4NFDI
website.
- Accounting4NFDI has published their Initialisation proposal on Zenodo.
Publications and related materials
- Base4NFDI has conducted a virtual workshop on 23 April 2026 with representatives of NFDI consortia
and team members of Base4NFDI’s basic services to discuss how to integrate a basic service, what resources are needed, and what challenges the integration can entail. A summary of the event can be found on Zenodo.
- If you need some presentation materials of Base4NFDI, feel free to use our updated presentation materials
on Zenodo.
Miscellaneous
- The deadline for the next proposal submission (Round 12 – last one for this year) is due 22 July 2026.
More information about the submission process here.
Due to the limited funding availability: Until further notice, no new proposals can be submitted to Base4NFDI. Projects that, as of April 2026, are funded in their initialisation or integration phases may submit a proposal for the next phase, depending on
the successful completion of their current phase. Priority will be given to the progress of current integration projects into their ramp-up phases.
- The recording of our last Fireside Conversation with Michael Schull (Digital Research Alliance of Canada)
is now online on Youtube.
Don’t miss our next talk with Rosie Hicks (Australian Research Data Commons) on 18 June 2026 at 10h CEST (8h UTC +2).
Register here.
Collaborations
- New frontend of Infra Proxy implemented in collaboration (SER, Jupyter+IAM) Jupyter4NFDI was the first
Basic Service to implement IAM4NFDI’s NFDI Infrastructure Proxy for the service login,
enabling any community or consortium connected to the NFDI-AAI to use the service. In collaboration with IAM4NFDI, Jupyter4NFDI, and the relevant Base4NFDI Service Stewards, the proxy’s frontend was customized to improve user-friendliness. Access is now available
either by selecting the appropriate consortium or via the guest access option. The integration of AcademicID will follow shortly, allowing all four existing IAM4NFDI Community AAI solutions and their connected consortia to be used for login. Concurrently,
a user
study was launched to gather feedback on the login process.
All previous newsletter issues can be found in our
Newsletter Archive.
If you have any questions, please contact:
base4nfdi-office@lists.nfdi.de
Best regards,
Franziska Fritzsche
on behalf of the Base4NFDI Office
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