Cultural Change in the NFDI

Without cultural change there is no sustainable research data sharing.

Why?

Challenges & Opportunities

We need your support to understand how cultural change drives sustainable research data sharing. Then, we will be able to support you with concepts, methods and materials to drive cultural change yourself. Cultural Change is slow and precious, so everybody needs to help it grow.

Infrastructures & People

There is a symbiotic relationship between research infrastructures and cultural change in academia. This change entails designing and enabling collective and collaborative practices, e.g., quality standards or evaluation and funding criteria, that are followed and embraced by communities. These communities build shared values around common understanding that FAIRness and openness are more relevant than currently prevailing means to define impact and value. Cultural change needs to involve all parts of the common infrastructure, so that systems designs - hardware, software, standards, rules, guidelines - furthers the new collaborative and collective culture. This new culture has to spread widely to be sustainable and effective and must transcend the borders of institutions and disciplines. The NFDI consortia are designed to develop and promote a culture of data sharing but jointly they can support a more far-reaching cultural change than individual research communities using their sustainable infrastructures and leadership to drive and sustain transdisciplinary cultural change.

Data as Humus

Data are neither “gold” nor “oil”. They are precious but do not burn dirty and can become part of something new. An interesting and more useful metaphor could be “humus”. In a shared information infrastructure, a project can grow on FAIRly shared data. “Data” would thus be seen and framed as a force or an element of a shared ecology.

Innovation

Research Data as a resource for an innovation driven society as a resource is of a completely new type: shared data is not lost! Its worth is increasing by connecting it to other resources and allowing for new uses. Data cannot be depleted by sharing. A society that commits to sharing research data openly is choosing a beneficial strategy.

Publications

Use Cases Survey

Contribute your use case of cultural change: https://t1p.de/cc-cases

Because Data Shall Grow (and we With it)

Steps Towards a Cultural Change for Sharing Research Data

Timeline

Events (event series DOI: 10.25798/y157-y687) & Outputs

  • Puzzle pieces | pixabay user congerdesign

    2023-04-17

    Cultural change in sharing research data with and through the NFDI

    The CC-BY-US event series on Cultural Change is intended as an open platform to facilitate discussions on the topic of sharing research data and to raise awareness of data sharing. The kick-off event brings together different understandings of the term and develops and discusses initial definitions of cultural change.
    https://events.nfdi4culture.de/event/13/
    https://nfdi4culture.de/events/cc-by-us-cultural-change-in-sharing-research-data-with-and-through-the-nfdi.html

    Miro Board: https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVMTHQ3nk=/

  • train station | pixabay user ulleo

    2023-07-03

    How can cultural change promote the use of infrastructures, how do infrastructures promote cultural change?

    The second part of the Cultural Change series at the NFDI is all about infrastructures. How can cultural change promote the use of infrastructures, how do infrastructures promote cultural change?
    https://events.nfdi4culture.de/event/25/
    https://nfdi4culture.de/events/cc-by-us-part-2.html

  • CoRDI poster partial screenshot

    2023-09-07

    Because Data Shall Grow
    (and we with it)

    Steps Towards a Cultural Change for Sharing Research Data (CoRDI poster)
    Abstract: https://doi.org/10.52825/cordi.v1i.278
    Poster: https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.8333775

  • Tigerschildkröte Duisburg | pixabay user _Lliein

    2023-11-09

    Workshop Duisburg

    Where do we stand in the NFDI when it comes to sharing data? What are there incentives but also barriers to sharing data? And last but not least: Quo vadis? What can cultural change look like and what would we like to achieve as the ideal state of data sharing? The aim of the workshop is to kick off the process of writing a white paper that outlines the current state of cultural change and shows perspectives for the future.

  • coloured pencils | pixabay user PublicDomainPictures

    2024 - 2025

    White paper

    Why is cultural neccessary and in which fields of action must change take place? In an ongoing iterative and inclusive co-writing process, CC-BY-US contributors work on analysis and recommendations for drivers of cultural change in an innovative research ecosystem.

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Contributors

Fostering Cultural Change is in NFDI's DNA. Let's work together to make it happen. These people are past and current contributors to CC-BY-US.
If you want to join the effort, visit us in the NFDI chat channel #Cultural-Change.

Julia Rakers

KonsortSWD | Duisburg-Essen University

Bernhard Miller

KonsortSWD, Base4NFDI | GESIS - Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences

Julia Mohrbacher

NFDI-MatWerk | Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

Daniel Nüst

NFDI4Earth | Technische Universität Dresden

Torsten Schrade

NFDI4Culture | Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz - Digitale Akademie
(until 2023)

Jörg Seegert

NFDI4Earth | Technische Universität Dresden

Christian Vater

NFDI4Culture | Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz - Digitale Akademie
(until 2023)

Cord Wiljes

Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur (NFDI) e.V. | Karlsruhe and Bielefeld University

Holger Simon

NFDI4Culture | Pausanio GmbH & Co. KG
(until 2023)

Zahia Schlott

NFDI4Culture | Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz - Digitale Akademie

Valerie Boda

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Alexandra Büttner

NFDI4Culture, HERMES | Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz - Digitale Akademie

Harry Enke

PUNCH4NFDI | Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam

Maximilian Frank

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Maria Meister

NFDI4BioDiversity | GFBio - German Federation for Biological Data

Cord Wiljes

Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur (NFDI) e.V.

Wolf Zinke

Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg