RDM Helpdesks of NFDI
The following NFDI helpdesks support both researchers and employees of RDM service centres with questions about research data management (RDM). Helpdesks for additional disciplines are currently being developed.
If you would like to find out more or contribute to the FDM network, you can find more information here.
Humanities und Social Sciences
KonsortSWD
NFDI4Society
Disciplines: Social, educational, behavioral, and economic sciences
The KonsortSWD Helpdesk serves as the primary point of contact, guiding users through KonsortSWD’s extensive infrastructure services. It offers assistance with data management planning, archiving research data, and utilizing data from research data centers. This service is directed at researchers and RDM professionals who might be unfamiliar with KonsortSWD’s data and service offerings. Leveraging a broad network of experts, the helpdesk efficiently directs inquiries to appropriate contacts, relevant research data centers, and other specialized services.
Contact: helpdesk@konsortswd.de
NFDI4Culture
Consortium for research data on material and immaterial cultural heritage
Disciplines: Architecture, art history, musicology, performing arts, film and media studies and beyond.
The NFDI4Culture Helpdesk team provides personalised advice on all topics relating to research data management, particularly with regard to image, 3D, audio and audiovisual data. The service is available to researchers as well as cultural heritage institutions.
Helpdesk: https://nfdi4culture.de/id/E2409
NFDI4Objects
Research data infrastructure for the material legacy of human history
Disciplines: Prehistoric Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Medieval Archaeology, Pre- and Protohistory, Anthropology, Building Archaeology, Geoarchaeology, Archaeobotany, Archaeozoology, Archaeogenetics, Archaeophysics, Paleopathology, Archaeometry, Conservation, Ethnoarchaeology, as well as cultural heritage institutions and provenance research
With our NFDI4Objects helpdesk, we support our community with questions regarding object-related data throughout the entire data life cycle. This includes the planning of research projects, data collection, data preparation and standardisation, publication, storage and re-use of research data. Our helpdesk service is open to everyone – our team is looking forward to answering your questions about the NFDI4Objects consortium, research data management and the use of our tools and services.
Text+
Consortium for text- and language-based research data
Disciplins: arts and Humanities
The Text+ Helpdesk facilitates direct access to Text+ Consulting. We offer individual assistance for all our services as well as for text- and language-based research data.
Our services are rounded off by the Text+ Research Rendezvous, where concerns and questions about Text+ and its services, the NFDI and text- and language-related research data can be discussed directly with colleagues from Text+ without prior registration.
The Research Rendezvous are held fortnightly, alternating between Tuesday (9:00-10:00) and Thursday (10:00-11:00). We are looking forward to hearing from you!
Contact: https://text-plus.org/en/helpdesk/
Life Sciences
DataPLANT
Consortium for basic plant research
Disciplines: Biology, especially basic plant research
Our DataPLANT Helpdesk supports you with your inquiries about the DataPLANT consortium, questions about research data management and the use of our tools and services. Initial answers and assistance can be found in our Knowledge Base.
Helpdesk: https://helpdesk.nfdi4plants.org
Knowledge Base: https://knowledgebase.nfdi4plants.org
FAIRagro
FAIR Data Infrastructure for Agrosystems
Disciplines: Agrosystem research, including agricultural landscape research, soil science, plant breeding, cultivation and nutrition, agricultural economics, policy, socio-economic data from agricultural research and more…
Our helpdesk supports any needs regarding agricultural data throughout the data life cycle such as data management plans, project policy, legal guidance, search for and publication of data as well as inquiries for trainings or project support.
Helpdesk: https://fairagro.net/helpdesk/
GHGA
German Human Genome Phenome Archive
Subjects: life sciences, genome research
The GHGA helpdesk is the point of contact for questions regarding the collection and storage of human genome data in GHGA for the purpose of secondary research.
Our helpdesk supports users and interested parties with enquiries regarding all GHGA-related areas, e.g. data submission (submission and technical questions), access to archived data, but also data security and data protection, ethical and legal aspects, our training portfolio and our public relations offers. Information on how to use it can also be found at.https://docs.ghga.de.
Contact contact@ghga.de
NFDI4Biodiversity
Consortium for Biodiversity, Ecology & Environmental Data
Disciplines: Biological, Biodiversity and Environmental Sciences
Our NFDI4Biodiversity helpdesk offers individual support for all of your questions – be it requests you would like to address about the NFDI4Biodiversity consortium, technical questions on the management of biodiversity, ecology or environmental data, questions on the use of our tools and services or something completely different. It is open for all.
NFDI4BioImage
National Research Data Infrastructure for Biological Imagesn
Disciplines: all Life Sciences
The Helpdesk offers support in dealing with image data in the context of research data management.
From data management plans and analysis options to solutions for metadata, publication and long-term storage, we offer a helping hand.
Networking with other helpdesks in the life sciences enables us to answer a very wide range of questions
Contact: https://nfdi4bioimage.de/help-desk/
NFDI4Microbiota
National research data infrastructure for microbiota research (Life Sciences)
Disciplines: Microbiology
The helpdesk answers all kinds of questions and problems related to data management and data analysis in microbiology as well as questions about the NFDI4Microbiota consortium, its outreach, community activities and more.
Helpdesk: https://nfdi4microbiota.de/contact-form/
Natural Sciences
FAIRmat
FAIR Data Infrastructure for Condensed Matter Physics and Chemical Physics of Solids (Physics)
FAIRmat supports researchers in solid-state physics and materials science with their research data management (RDM). Whether you need tips on RDM best practices or help using our tools such as NOMAD, NOMAD Oasis, and NOMAD CAMELS, write to us directly using the contact email below. For real-time interaction and quick responses, we invite you to join our community on Discord, where you can connect directly with our team members..
Contact: fairmat@physik.hu-berlin.de
FAIRmat Discord Community: https://discord.com/invite/Gyzx3ukUw8
NFDI4Cat
Konsortium für Katalyseforschung und katalysebezogene Wissenschaften
Fächer: Katalyse, Materialwissenschaften, Chemieingenieurwesen
Wir bieten individuelle Unterstützung über das Kontaktformular auf unserer Homepage. Wenn Sie eine offene Diskussion mit der Gemeinschaft bevorzugen, nutzen Sie unsere NFDI4Cat-GitHub Organisation. Wir werden unser Bestes tun, um Sie bei der erfolgreichen Nutzung unserer Werkzeuge zu unterstützen und Sie durch den Dschungel des Forschungsdatenmanagements zu führen.
Kontakt: https://nfdi4cat.org/kontakt/
Diskussionen: https://github.com/orgs/nfdi4cat/discussions
NFDI4Chem
NFDI Consortium for Chemistry
Disciplines: Chemistry
The NFDI4Chem Helpdesk is the first point of contact for all questions about the NFDI4Chem consortium, as well as for questions about research data management (RDM) in chemistry, NFDI4Chem or NFDI services, data repositories, electronic lab notebooks (ELN) in general and in particular (e.g. “Chemotion”).
The helpdesk is supplemented by the NFDI4Chem Knowledge Base.
Helpdesk: helpdesk@nfdi4chem.de
NFDI4Earth
Consortium for Earth System Sciences
Disciplines: Geo- and Earth Sciences
The NFDI4Earth-Helpdesk provides personalized support and advice for questions on research datamanagement in Earth System Sciences, such as for example on general research data management, about the consortium it self, technical questions on research data and their handling, specific support for tools and so on. The Helpdesk is closely connected to the OneStop4All portal developed within NFDI4Earth.
Helpdesk: https://nfdi4earth.de/helpdesk
Engineering Sciences
NFDI4Ing
National Research Data Infrastructure for the Engineering Sciences
Disciplines: all engineering sciences
NFDI4Ing operates the platform https://questions.nfdi4ing.de Similar to the well-known portal Stackoverflow, anyone can post their own questions on the topic of research data management in engineering and provide answers to questions from the community.
Helpdesk: https://nfdi4ing.de/contact/
NFDI-MatWerk
National research data infrastructure for materials science and materials technology
Diisciplines: Materials sciences and material technology
The NFDI MatWerk Helpdesk offers you a central point of contact for questions and challenges in research data management in materials science and engineering. We provide support in handling large amounts of data, using workflows, recording research data and with Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELN). Use our contact form to send your enquiries quickly and easily to our experts – we will be happy to help.
Contact: https://nfdi-matwerk.de/contact
