PUNCH4NFDI combines expertise in data management in particle physics, astroparticle physics, hadron and nuclear physics and astronomy. The consortium can draw on the experience of its communities, which has grown over decades, especially in the area of scalable solutions for very large data volumes in heterogeneous environments, for many thousands of users and with “open data”. PUNCH4NFDI wants to bundle and further develop the already existing, successful, but often isolated solutions.

Based on a layered model of data management already implemented in parts of the community, the consortium wants to create a FAIR “Science Data Platform” as a biotope for the entire life cycle of digital research products and also make it available to other branches of science. Another issue is the problem of data irreversibility, i.e. the unavoidable reduction of data sets due to the very high data volumes. A particular priority for PUNCH4NFDI is networking and establishing synergies with other consortia from the field of physics and beyond. Other priorities are education and training. 

• TA 1: Management and governance
• TA 2: Data management
• TA 3: Data transformations
• TA 4: Data portal
• TA 5: Data irreversibility
• TA 6: Synergies and services
• TA 7: Training, education, outreach and citizen science