NFDI4Energy

🔹 2nd issue of our new series ~Meet the Task Areas~ 🔹 Get to know our consortium step-by-step, continuing with Task Area (TA) 2 today! TA2: Integrating Society and Policy in Energy Research ▶ Brief overview:  The primary objective of TA2 is to include societal stakeholders, ranging from citizens to policymakers, and societal factors into energy research. Thereby, TA2 aims to give greater consideration to the societal challenges inherent in energy system transformation and foster both interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research collaborations over the long term. This involves identifying energy modelling use cases within the NFDI4Energy context, where enhanced data collection from, and communication of results to, societal stakeholders can elevate research quality. These use cases aim to identify service features that actively involve societal stakeholders and facilitate the participation of social science energy researchers, such as political scientists and sociologists, in the planned NFDI4Energy services. ▶ (Interim) Results: ·      TA2 identified a lack of systematic typology for gathering energy policy instrument data during the initial stages of social and political data collection. Consequently, TA2 proposed a theoretically grounded ontology, which was well received by stakeholders and the Open Energy Ontology (OEO). TA2 is refining this typology through feedback from academic and policy data communities to enhance the new research data infrastructure. ·      To examine societal, political and economic challenges related to energy system transformation, specific research topics and case study regions have been selected. New data will be collected using qualitative research methods, and scenario analysis will integrate socio-technical factors. Potential challenges and requirements for the NFDI4Energy services will be evaluated. ▶ Next steps: ·      TA2 aims to develop practices for collecting data on regulation and policy to facilitate its use in empirical analysis and modelling. ·      In TA2´s ongoing design science research, TA2 is developing an interactive energy policy comparison tool for open data platforms. This tool should help energy researchers communicate model outcomes to local decision-makers by offering advice on key model elements, corresponding interactive design elements, and associated metadata. The design knowledge is drawn from a software artifact review and effective model communication analysis. ·      TA2 aims to provide an overview about the assumptions and parameterizations used to model future energy service demand in different sectors like transport or buildings. Are such demand levels modelled endogenously or extrapolated from current data, and what kind of corresponding explicit or implicit societal narratives are applied? For more information, go to 🔗https://lnkd.in/dUnBzXEP #NFDI4Energy #ResearchData #FAIRData #EnergyPolicy #EnergyCitizenship

Our Latest Newsletter is Out! Stay updated with the latest insights, trends, and updates from the NFDI4Energy-cosmos. Our newest edition covers: 🔹 Report on our first Scientific and Industrial Advisory Board meeting  🔹 Presentations of Task Areas 1-3  🔹 Event-Updates Read the full newsletter here: https://lnkd.in/e9_-46xn Join our mailing list to receive future updates directly to your inbox: https://lnkd.in/d-kGGYtQ Happy reading 😊 #NFDIrocks #RDM #NFDI4Energy #Newsletter

Meet the Task Areas We are happy to start our new series "Meet the Task Areas" today! Get to know our consortium step-by-step, beginning with TA1 today! More TA presentations will follow soon. Task Area 1 (TA1): Building and Serving the Energy Research Community ▶ Brief overview: TA1 will collect and update service requirements by the energy modeling and simulation communities. TA1 is devoted to creating services for sharing best practices and community guidelines, as well as a platform as a central access point to community services. Continuously monitoring, adapting, and improving offerings according to community feedback are envisioned. Also, TA1 develops guidelines, materials, and tutorials for best practices in energy system research. ▶ (Interim) Results: So far, TA1 has conducted an extensive requirements analysis through interviews and workshops with energy researchers. Currently, TA1 performs an in-depth analysis of the collected material. These results will lead to further developments and services portfolio by NFDI4Energy and its partners. ▶ Next steps: The requirements from the scientific audience will be further extracted and orchestrated with the findings of other Task Areas in NFDI4Energy. Also, TA1 will focus on the integration of base services provided by Base4NFDI - Basic Services for the NFDI. For more information, please visit 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gRarme9R #NFDI4Energy #ResearchData #FAIRData #NFDIrocks

🎉 We attended the Research Data Day in Bremen! ▶ On June 18th the Research Data Day in Bremen organized by U Bremen Research Alliance offered the possibility to come together and share insights on the challenges and best practices in handling research data. Through Poster-Sessions, Talks and Information Booths participants could connect in the Field of Research Data (Management). ▶ NFDI4Energy, NFDI4Health, NFDI4Earth, NFDI-MatWerk, NFDI4Biodiversity, NFDI4DS, NFDI4Ing, NFDI4Culture, and @NFDI4Memory presented their consortium under the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) umbrella, promoting sustainable data infrastructures. ▶ We had an enriching time gathering with diverse stakeholders from the research data management community, engaging in insightful discussions. Many thanks to the organizers for this great event! We look forward to the next edition in 2025 😊 #NFDI4Energy #RDM #ResearchData #TagderForschungsdatenBremen

Wir freuen uns auf das geplante Treffen mit Prof. Dr. York Sure-Vetter zum Austausch innerhalb der NFDI-Konsortien mit Bremer Beteiligung: NFDI-MatWerk, NFDI4Biodiversity, NFDI4Earth (Academy), NFDI4DataScience, NFDI4Health, KonsortSWD, NFDI4Ing, NFDI4Memory, NFDI4Energy. Vertreter:innen oben genannter NFDI-Konsortien stehen am Tag der Forschungsdaten von 9 bis 15 Uhr für Fragen, Diskussion und Austausch an der NFDI-Informationsinsel in der Glashalle der Universität Bremen bereit. ---- We look forward to the planned meeting with Prof. Dr. York Sure-Vetter for an exchange within the NFDI consortia with Bremen participation: NFDI-MatWerk, NFDI4Biodiversity, NFDI4Earth (Academy), NFDI4DataScience, NFDI4Health, KonsortSWD, NFDI4Ing, NFDI4Memory, NFDI4Energy. Representatives of the aforementioned NFDI consortia will be available on Research Data Day for questions, discussions, and exchanges at the NFDI information booth in the Glashalle at the University of Bremen. Frank Oliver Glöckner Tanja Hörner Teresa Alberts

FAIR Research Artifacts for Energy Research is the topic of our #NFDITalk next Monday. 📅 17 June, 4 PM – Online   🎤 Speaker: Astrid Nieße (Speaker of NFDI4Energy)   ℹ About the talk: Energy systems research focuses on energy systems which are currently changing in multiple ways due to the need to reduce CO2 emissions, new technologies, and especially digitalization. In this talk, we look at typically research artifacts in energy research like data and software and introduce typical challenges researchers have with them. Also, we will give an overview on the services which NFDI4Energy will provide to support researchers with these challenges.   ➡ Join the Zoom Meeting: www.nfdi.de/talks ➡ YouTube stream: https://lnkd.in/eWEpBm9t #fdm #rdm #researchdata #fairdata #nfdi4energy

OFFIS - Institut für Informatik meets Soziologisches Forschungsinstitut Göttingen! Today, we held a great workshop on the NFDI4Energy Platform in Göttingen. Nina Kerker, Marika Großmann, Dr. Oliver Werth, and I delved into our empirical findings on the challenges & needs of the energy research community, particularly focusing on putting fair data principles into practice. Special thanks to Nina for the fantastic preparation! Nothing can beat a brainstorming session in person, especially when there's plenty of cake ;-) #NFDI4energy #EnergyResearch #InterdisciplinaryEnergyResearch"

🎉 We attended the DPE Forum in Passau! ▶ The event (4 - 5 June 2024), centered around the digital platform economy, featured top-tier speakers and inspiring presenters from diverse disciplines such as business management, information systems, economics, communication science, marketing, and law. ▶ NFDI representatives presented the first results of their research on launching strategies for non-profit platforms. They received valuable feedback, engaged in dynamic discussions, and expanded their network. Many thanks to the Digital Platform Ecosystems (DPE) Ecosystems for this great event! We look forward to the next edition 😊 #NFDI4Energy #ResearchData #DPEForum2024 #DigitalPlatformEcosystems

🎉 We attended the kickoff of the project Software CaRD! ▶ The Software CaRD project aims to improve software publication processes by focusing on metadata curation and enhancement. By leveraging a user-friendly dashboard, researchers will efficiently handle metadata, adhere to institutional policies, and obtain valuable insights for evaluation and reporting. This open-source tool supports the FAIR4RS principles and enables the development of high-quality software research in the field. ▶ Aida Jafarbigloo and Stephan Ferenz of our NFDI4Energy team presented the tool SMECS (Software Metadata Extraction and Curation Software) which is already able to extract software metadata from GitHub and GitLab. Also, SMECS allows researchers to curate their software metadata and export it as CodeMeta json. You can find SMECS at: https://lnkd.in/dg-dQKAX ▶ Metadata for Research Software are the foundation to enable FAIR research software. While a lot of metadata already exist, research need support to create meaningful metadata as well as to check and curate the existing metadata. Many thanks to the organizers of this great event :)!

🚨 Save the date: NFDI4Energy @ NFDI Talk! 17.06.2024 at 4 p.m. Online via Zoom or live on Youtube (links below) ℹ The NFDI Talks provide insights into the wide National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) cosmos. Experts from various disciplines talk about different topics. This time our spokesperson Astrid Nieße presents NFDI4Energy! The audience has the opportunity to ask questions to the speaker and enter into a direct dialogue. People outside our NFDI community can also register to the Zoom-Meeting. 🔗 Register to Zoom Meeting: https://lnkd.in/dcQAh6Sn or watch the stream on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/d64ShXdc We look forward to it and hope to see you there! #NFDI4Energy #RDM #NFDITalk