National data infrastructure

A coordinated, nationally-scoped programme and set of services for the storage, sharing, and reuse of research data within a country, typically combining funding policy, technical infrastructure (repositories, compute, federation), training, and governance.

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National data infrastructures emerged through funder strategies in the 2010s. Examples include the UK Data Service, Australia’s Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), Germany’s NFDI (Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur), the Netherlands’ Health-RI, France’s Recherche Data Gouv, and Canada’s DRI Alliance / Federated Research Data Repository. They typically coordinate domain-specific data services with cross-domain infrastructure (PID services, AAI, training) and engage with international federations (EOSC).

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OECD, 'Building digital workforce capacity and skills for data-intensive science' (OECD Science, Technology and Industry Policy Papers, 2020).
NFDI, 'About NFDI' (nfdi.de).

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