EcoDM: Ecosystem Data Management - Analyses - Recommendations - FAIRification

EcoDM aims to analyse the topic of FAIR data management - a key topic for the development of future collaborative European data ecosystems - in depth in Germany in the four selected areas (https://ecodm.de/index.php/bereiche/) of science, the public sector, business and qualification and across these areas.

Despite rapidly increasing discourses, cross-sectoral communication is still quite rare. Consequently, EcoDM supports related stakeholders to overcome the boundaries of domains and disciplines and to achieve a more pluralistic and fruitful discourse on digital data management.

Leading data producers from science, the public sector, business and qualification are brought together to jointly develop recommendations for action for a democratic, fair, inclusive, sustainable and interoperable digital data ecosystem.

With regard to the development and governance of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), GAIA-X and the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI), EcoDM fills a gap in terms of FAIR data management and at the same time builds a bridge to planned German and European developments. [More on the background of the project... https://ecodm.de/index.php/hintergrund/]

On the one hand, EcoDM will introduce European and international developments, discussions and concrete implementations into the German discourse, both within and across the areas under consideration. On the other hand, EcoDM will also contribute to bringing specific and general needs, lighthouse projects, question marks, tools, but also concrete implementations etc. from Germany into the international discourse.

Procedure
To develop the results, qualitative expert interviews will be conducted in the respective areas and combined with a focus group discussion. In parallel, a cross-sector landscape and gap analysis will be carried out.

The project progress and findings will be published via the EcoDM information and communication portal and made available open access. This means that the results and further information are documented and can be added to and discussed by other interested parties. This enables the active inclusion of input from those not directly involved, so that specific aspects and needs can also be taken into account afterwards.

By analysing existing infrastructures and networks as well as gaps, EcoDM will develop recommendations for action for a sustainable data management ecosystem in Germany. These will provide a sound overview of existing needs, challenges and solution strategies and help to complement and support national and international strategies to promote cultural change towards cross-sectoral data sharing.

Project objectives and milestones
Landscape and gap analysis for all sectors
Sector-specific expert interviews
Cross-divisional focus group discussion
Training courses and workshops
Organisation of satellite events on RDA-DE
Promotion of young researchers (https://ecodm.de/index.php/tag/stipendien)
Community engagement
Publication of the final report with recommendations for action
Final event
 

Further information: Project - EcoDM - Ecosystem Data Management https://www.ecodm.de/projekt/