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Description
PUNCH4NFDI is a consortium in the NFDI representing the German particle, astro-, astroparticle, hadron, and nuclear physics community. The consortium currently has 20 co-applicant institutions with strong contribution by Helmholtz centres.
In the past four years, PUNCH4NFDI has pursued its aim of building federated infrastructure to facilitate FAIR data management for its community. The infrastructure consists of several elements which are – or will be – connected in a way that allows the user to almost seamlessly combine different elements as required for the individual use case. These elements include: federated compute and storage, metadata and file catalogues, a workflow engine, a registry for digital research products including a metadata schema for PUNCH.
This year, the consortium has written a proposal for a second 5-year funding phase, and almost in parallel an evaluation of the structure of NFDI, together with recommendations for the future, has been published.
In this presentation, we will discuss the achievements as well as the challenges encountered during the past years, and the plans for the future in PUNCH4NFDI also in light of the NFDI evaluation.
