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Research data infrastructures constitute comprehensive digital frameworks encompassing both physical (hardware infrastructure) and digital (technologies, resources, workflows, protocols, etc.) components. Their primary role lies in facilitating the complete life cycle of research data, thereby advancing scientific knowledge, fostering collaboration, and ensuring data integrity and accessibility. A significant portion of the current progress in this domain is driven by consortia within the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI), including Particle, Universe, NuClei and Hadrons for the NFDI (PUNCH4NDFI). This consortium, composed of the German particle, astroparticle, hadron, nuclear, and astrophysics communities has a substantial experience in technological developments for big data management in research, adhering to open science and FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles.
PUNCH4NFDI's collective endeavors encompass a wide range of activities aimed at tackling challenges such as data volumes, complexity, rates, and irreversibility at an entirely novel level in order to align with the rigorous demands of modern FAIR multidisciplinary science.
This contribution provides an overview of the consortium's structure, goals, recent developments, and highlights the synergies driving PUNCH4NFDI towards its flagship development: a science data platform tailored to serve needs of the PUNCH community, the broader NFDI initiative, and the general public.
