German Federation for the Curation of Biological Data (GFBio)

• Applicants: Professor Dr. Francois Buscot; Professorin Dr. Johanna Eder; Professor Dr. Stephan Frickenhaus; Professor Dr. Frank Oliver Glöckner; Dr. Peter Grobe; Anton Güntsch; Professor Dr. Thomas Hickler; Dr. Jana Hoffmann; Professor Dr. Wolfram Horstmann; Dr. Robert Huber, since 5/2021; Dr. Jens Kattge; Professorin Dr. Birgitta König-Ries; Dr. Jens Nieschulze; Professor Dr. Jörg Overmann; Professor Dr. Adrian Paschke, since 7/2020; Professor Dr. Bernhard Seeger; Dr. Dagmar Triebel; Professor Dr. Christian Wirth; Professor Dr. Ramin Yahyapour
• Subject Area: Data Management, Data-Intensive Systems, Computer Science Methods in Business Informatics
• Term: from 2013 to 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 229241684

The German Federation for Biological Data (GFBio) aims to set up a sustainable, service oriented, national data infrastructure facilitating data sharing and stimulating data intensive science in the fields of biological and environmental research. GFBio follows a holistic approach including technical, organizational, cultural, and policy aspects. The development of the infrastructure is essentially based on the collective experience and expertise of leading researchers from multiple disciplines as well as on a network of complementary and professional data facilities in the biological and environmental sciences communities, including PANGAEA, major German natural history collection data repositories, and selected facilities from the molecular biology research community. GFBio is projected for three phases setting out the way from development to management of services. The current, preparatory phase focusses on conceptualizing and prototyping GFBio components such as the archive backbone and the service platform. Phase II will concentrate on implementation and the last phase on consolidation of the infrastructure.

• DFG Programme: Research data and software (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
• Ehemalige Antragstellerinnen / Ehemalige Antragsteller: Dr. Michael Diepenbroek, until 5/2021; Professorin Dr. Claudia Müller-Birn, until 6/2020