DataPLANT present at the E-Science-Tage 2025 in Heidelberg

Fri Mar 14 2025

Our consortium participated with a poster on “DataPLANT services design - Considerations towards a common NFDI landscape” providing input to the discussion on the further design of a joint NFDI services landscape. Many Research Data Management services are not limited to a single scientific domain and are of interest to many research institutions. As no individual research institution can fully provide all relevant services in RDM, collaboration and shared services are both desirable and necessary. Keeping this in mind and allow for cross-disciplinary data sharing the creation of a cross-disciplinary RDM landscape is required. The envisioned architecture has to meet the specific needs of research groups and disciplines, while also enabling the (re-)use of data across traditional boundaries as well as the deployment of AI approaches. The development of applications and tools for bottom-up, community-driven research data management requires the collaboration of multiple stakeholders. In building these services, we have adhered to design principles that provide high-level guidance and ensure the creation of sustainable and maintainable applications. The process follows an incremental and iterative approach, ensuring continuous stakeholder alignment and commitment.

In line with this vision, one of the long standing core objectives of the DataPLANT consortium is to provide tools and services that can be shared with other consortia and deployed across flexible backend infrastructures. At the heart of these technical services is the PLANTdataHUB, a science gateway designed to support data management, analysis and publication workflows. In addition to core functions, the PLANTdataHUB offers workflow pipeline templates, automated quality assurance, and other interaction services to foster DataPLANT’s open participation and contribution model. This model encompasses all relevant assets, including ARCs, raw data, metadata templates, ontologies, code, and workflow descriptions. Our services are designed as flexible, cloud-based microservices, supporting both on-premises installations and future integration with a shared NFDI infrastructure.

The three day event consisting of key notes, parallel tracks of presentations, lightening talks, workshops and poster session provided multiple opportunities to exchange with practitioners from other scientific domains ans research institutions including representatives of the different state initiatives on RDM on the future development on infrastructure and services.