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@INPROCEEDINGS{Giesler:1039202,
      author       = {Giesler, André and Tatscheck, Jana and Niksch, Lydia and
                      Bauer, Thomas and Ritter, Xenia},
      title        = {{D}ata {S}tewards und {S}ervice {S}tewards -
                      {O}pportunities for {C}ollaboration},
      school       = {RWTH Aachen},
      reportid     = {FZJ-2025-01744},
      year         = {2025},
      abstract     = {The German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) and
                      its Base4NFDI initiative have identified the need for a new
                      role called Service Steward, to support the development and
                      integration of NFDI-wide basic services into the national
                      research landscape. Their areas of responsibility are
                      comparable to those of Data Stewards. While they act as an
                      interface between infrastructure and researchers, Service
                      Stewards act as the interface between service development
                      teams and the various NFDI consortia, thus accelerating the
                      development of a cross-disciplinary service portfolio. This
                      similarity suggests possible opportunities for future
                      collaboration, as Data Stewards can benefit from being both
                      relevant stakeholders and multipliers in the context of
                      basic service development. Since March 2023, the DFG-funded
                      NFDI comprises 26 discipline-specific consortia. In general,
                      these scientific communities operate their own service
                      portfolios, i.e. software tools, technical services or
                      workflows, and offer advice to enable and facilitate
                      researchers to create and work with FAIR data. In the course
                      of that work, cross-cutting and consortia-overlapping topics
                      have emerged which are addressed and discussed in so-called
                      NFDI sections. This is where Base4NFDI comes into play: as a
                      joint initiative of all NFDI consortia, the project promotes
                      cross-disciplinary basic services for a NFDI-wide service
                      portfolio, providing both the development process and
                      financial framework along with personnel support.Such a
                      basic service usually builds on already existing service
                      structures, creates added value for all users (compared to
                      individual solutions), and strives for sustainable long-term
                      organisation and provision. As a technical-organisational
                      solution, it may offer new software, processes and
                      workflows, computing and storage resources and personnel for
                      development and user support. The resulting basic service
                      portfolio can cover the entire research cycle, whereby the
                      individual service design may vary. For example, among the
                      seven services currently funded by Base4NFDI, IAM4NFDI
                      offers technical cross-platform single sign-on solutions,
                      while PID4NFDI draws on already existing PID technologies
                      and focuses on their dissemination and the exploitation of
                      the full potential of PIDs. The basic service DMP4NFDI
                      supports researchers in the creation of data management
                      plans (DMPs) with the potential help of Data Stewards and
                      builds on the further development of the DMP software
                      RDMO.In the development process of these basic services,
                      Service Stewards form a communication interface between the
                      involved stakeholders, i.a. the service development teams
                      and the NFDI consortia. One of these communication tasks is
                      to support the bottom-up approach of NFDI by requirement
                      engineering and the continuous analyses of needs in the
                      scientific communities, in order to ensure a high level of
                      acceptance among the various target groups of the services.
                      Therefore, their profile includes interdisciplinary
                      expertise, complemented by focused technical knowledge (e.g.
                      federated access, data literacy) and experience in project
                      and service management. In contrast to that, Data Stewards
                      are often experts in a specific discipline. They usually
                      provide project- and practice-oriented support and give
                      researchers advice on the selection of suitable tools and
                      services. Furthermore, they establish, implement and refine
                      institutional research data management (RDM) concepts.
                      However, both roles have a supporting function.The
                      three-phase service development process installed at
                      Base4NFDI showcases numerous opportunities for collaboration
                      between Data Stewards and Service Stewards. Particularly in
                      the first two phases (initialisation $\&$ integration),
                      which focus on exchange with the communities and the
                      adoption of individual use cases, Data Stewards can be a
                      valuable source of information for Service Stewards with
                      their knowledge of the needs of researchers in their
                      community, and can therefore also take on the role of a
                      process stakeholder. In their bridging function between
                      researchers and infrastructure, they have the expertise to
                      identify relevant requirements. In the third phase
                      (ramping-up-for-operation), in which a service is scaled up
                      and rolled out NFDI-wide, they can support the dissemination
                      of basic services by incorporating them into the local RDM
                      concept, or even being part of the execution of a service.
                      Conversely, Data Stewards and their institutions can profit
                      from information on and early involvement in the development
                      of the basic services. By actively participating in the
                      process, they can help shape services to meet the needs of
                      their community and even be use case partners or early
                      adopters of a service, promoting the NFDI bottom-up
                      approach. Continuing this thought, the entire research data
                      management landscape, in particular individual institutions
                      such as universities where Data Stewards are often located,
                      will drive and eventually benefit from the bottom-up
                      development of the infrastructure by Base4NFDI and the use
                      of the basic services. In conclusion, there are several
                      opportunities for collaboration between Data and Service
                      Stewards. For both sides, it would offer participation in
                      each other's fields of work, enabling mutual enrichment from
                      the very beginning of the service development process. The
                      practical implementation of these opportunities and the
                      final success of the project will result from the acceptance
                      of the basic services portfolio in the communities over the
                      course of the project.},
      month         = {Sep},
      date          = {2024-09-11},
      organization  = {Data Stewardship goes Germany 2024,
                       Aachen (Germany), 11 Sep 2024 - 12 Sep
                       2024},
      subtyp        = {Other},
      keywords     = {NFDI (Other) / Base4NFDI (Other) / Service Steward (Other)
                      / Data Steward (Other) / Data Stewardship Goes Germany 2024
                      (Other)},
      cin          = {JSC},
      cid          = {I:(DE-Juel1)JSC-20090406},
      pnm          = {5112 - Cross-Domain Algorithms, Tools, Methods Labs (ATMLs)
                      and Research Groups (POF4-511) / DFG project
                      G:(GEPRIS)521453681 - Base4NFDI - Basisdienste für die NFDI
                      (NFDI4Earth) (521453681) / DFG project G:(GEPRIS)521460392 -
                      Base4NFDI - Basisdienste für die NFDI (PUNCH4NFDI)
                      (521460392) / DFG project G:(GEPRIS)521462155 - Base4NFDI -
                      Basisdienste für die NFDI (NFDI4Data Science) (521462155) /
                      DFG project G:(GEPRIS)521463400 - Base4NFDI - Basisdienste
                      für die NFDI (KonsortSWD) (521463400) / DFG project
                      G:(GEPRIS)521466146 - Base4NFDI - Basisdienste für die NFDI
                      (FAIRmat) (521466146) / DFG project G:(GEPRIS)521471126 -
                      Base4NFDI - Basisdienste für die NFDI (NFDI4Culture)
                      (521471126) / DFG project G:(GEPRIS)521473512 - Base4NFDI -
                      Basisdienste für die NFDI (Text plus) (521473512) / DFG
                      project G:(GEPRIS)521474032 - Base4NFDI - Basisdienste für
                      die NFDI (NFDI4Ing) (521474032) / DFG project
                      G:(GEPRIS)521475185 - Base4NFDI - Basisdienste für die NFDI
                      (NFDI4Health) (521475185) / DFG project G:(GEPRIS)521476232
                      - Base4NFDI - Basisdienste für die NFDI (NFDI4Microbiota)
                      (521476232)},
      pid          = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-5112 / G:(GEPRIS)521453681 /
                      G:(GEPRIS)521460392 / G:(GEPRIS)521462155 /
                      G:(GEPRIS)521463400 / G:(GEPRIS)521466146 /
                      G:(GEPRIS)521471126 / G:(GEPRIS)521473512 /
                      G:(GEPRIS)521474032 / G:(GEPRIS)521475185 /
                      G:(GEPRIS)521476232},
      typ          = {PUB:(DE-HGF)24},
      doi          = {10.5281/ZENODO.14609371},
      url          = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1039202},
}