Management & Governance is a cross-cutting element featuring policies and tools for providers, structures for decision processes and maintenance of the terms of use..
Zooming into Management and Governance
Policies (grey)
Basic services
- IDM (green), Authentification (green), Authorisation (grey)
- Service Monitoring (green)
The Research Data Commons are conceptualised as a federated, distributed infrastructure with many contributing data and service providers. Within the first development phase, the main resource providers are partner organisations within the NFDI4Biodiversity consortium which develop specific software components according to the work program, or work on pilot implementations of cloud-based services and data products.
Based on these development and Use Case projects, we define the rules and regulations necessary to operate RDC in the long term. Policies serve to clarify the rules of participation, i.e. the criteria for offering of applications and data products. Inline with the NFDI philosophy, we support the provision of data according to the FAIR principles. We value machine-readability and the provision of data unter CC-0 and CC-BY licences. For our service providers, we request information on the development status and sustainability of tools and encourage the use of common registries like biotools and EOSC Marketplace.
- Outputs in preparation: Policies for data and service providers
In terms of basic services, we support the use of academic ID´s for access to all RDC services. At present, Life Science Login is supported for all existing services, allowing users to login with academic ID´s from across Europe and a wide range of social media profiles. In addition, the GFBio Identity Provider is available for registration of users outside the academic system. Authorisation is presently done on the level of services, until the scope of an NFDI-wide solution is materialising.
Another crucial component in Management & Governance is a control center where we collect usage statistics (KPIs) of data and services, in order to monitor the uptake of our offerings in the community of interest. Based on previous work from the German Bioinformatics Network de.NBI, the Scorpion Service was set up to store and visualise Key Performanc Indicators delivered by RDC service providers. This allows to some degree the quantification of a service quality and will be depened in the future by a qualitative monitoring through user surveys.
Perspectives
- Policies