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INFORMATION.

KNOWLEDGE.
LIFE.

An infrastructure and research centre for data and information in the life sciences.

Life sciences research needs a solid infrastructure.

ZB MED carries out the applied research required to achieve this.

NFDI4DataScience

National Research Data Infrastructure for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence

The past years have seen a paradigm shift, with computational methods increasingly relying on data-driven and often deep learning-based approaches, leading to the establishment and ubiquity of Data Science as a discipline driven by advances in the field of Computer Science but being of relevance to most scientific disciplines. Transparency, reproducibility and fairness have become crucial challenges for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence due to the complexity of contemporary Data Science methods, often relying on a combination of code, models and data used for training.

NFDI4DataScience aims to establish a community-driven research data infrastructure for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. In this regard, it focuses on several types of data and IT solutions established within the community, including publications, data, models and software code. Transparency, reproducibility and fairness have become crucial challenges.

NFDI4DataScience will support all steps of the interdisciplinary research data lifecycle, including collecting/creating, processing, analysing, publishing, archiving and reusing resources in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.

ZB MED’s role in the project

ZB MED is involved in building the infrastructures needed to provide and search for data, software and data analysis models used for research in artificial intelligence.

Duration

1 October 2021 – 30 September 2026

Funding bodies

German Research Foundation (DFG) - Grant No. 460234259

Partners

  • German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
  • Fraunhofer FOKUS
  • Fraunhofer FIT
  • FIZ Karlsruhe
  • GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
  • Hamburger Informatik Technologie-Center e.V. (HITeC)
  • Leibniz University Hannover
  • Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics
  • RWTH Aachen University
  • TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology
  • TU Berlin
  • TU Dresden
  • University Leipzig
  • ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences
  • ZBW Leibniz Information Centre for Economics

NFDI4DataScience is coordinated by Fraunhofer FOKUS.

ZB MED is supported by the Federal Ministry of Health

ZB MED is supported by the Federal Ministry of Health.

The Federal Ministry of Health is a sponsor of ZB MED on the basis of a decision by the German Bundestag.

Local universities cooperate closely with ZB MED as partners

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The robust, well-established partnership between ZB MED and the University of Cologne covers research, teaching and the provision of information. The Scientific Director of ZB MED also holds a professorship at the Medical Faculty.

ZB MED is sponsered by the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia

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The Ministry of Culture and Science of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia is sponsoring ZB MED.

Local universities cooperate closely with ZB MED as partners

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A joint professorship is just one example of the cooperation between ZB MED and the University of Bonn in the fields of research and teaching. ZB MED’s Bonn site is located on the Poppelsdorf campus.

ZB MED advocates Open Access

ZB MED promotes and supports open access to scientific research through the PUBLISSO portal and other services.

Local universities cooperate closely with ZB MED as partners

ZB MED’s cooperation with TH Köln focuses on providing qualifications in information and data science through joint professorships and other strategies.

ZB MED is a member of DataCite

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DataCite is an international not-for-profit organisation that offers services and know-how relating to the management, referencing and citation of research data.

ZB MED and Bielefeld University have signed a cooperation agreement

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The objective is to work together to provide complementary information services for the life sciences.

ZB MED advocates equality

ZB MED received the TOTAL E-QUALITY award in 2010, 2013, 2017 and 2021 for successfully implementing equality in its staffing structure and personnel policies.

ZB MED is one of over 30 partners in the LFV Open Science

The network is committed to the research and development of working methods, infrastructures, and tools of Open Science.

ZB MED is a member of DAFA.

The "Deutsche Agrarfoschungsallianz" aims to improve the performance, transparency and international visibility of German agricultural research. It is a joint project of German agricultural research.

ZB MED is committed to the principles of Libraries4Future.

Climate protection, sustainability, responsibility, social solidarity.