Research Data in Chemistry – Results of the first NFDI4Chem Community Survey

Abstract

Good research data management (RDM) requires a constant endeavour of the researchers but – first and foremost – user-friendly infrastructure and well accepted standards need to be developed for the researchers. The national research data infrastructure initiative for chemistry in Germany NFDI4Chem sets out to embrace the challenge of creating a general research data management portal and hereby connecting already existing infrastructure as well as to foster the cultural change in chemistry towards digitalization by developing general minimum information standards for all methods used and teaching RDM principles to the community. In order to serve the needs of the chemical community at its best, NFDI4Chem accomplishes regular community surveys. The first survey has been performed in 2019 and the results were condensed into the NFDI4Chem proposal. This article summarizes the design of the study and its results. With regard to the project development, this first national survey serves as zero-point of all upcoming efforts in research data management.