Each proposal for a Basic Service is evaluated in 4 steps:
A NFDI section discusses proposals: During section meetings proposals can be commented and can – if necessary – be integrated with proposals by other interested sections.
NFDI Consortia evaluate and vote on all proposals based on their community's needs. A service will pass once the phase-specific quorum (25%, 50%, 75%) is met. Base4NFDI sends out and analyses a survey to collect votes and optional comments.
The Technical Expert Committee (TEC) evaluates proposals regarding (e.g.,) quality, risks, consortia support, interoperability with existing solutions, or KPIs, and will give a non-binding recommendation to the Consortia Assembly.
The Consortia Assembly decides on whether to fund the service. The vote in the Consortia Assembly reflects the degree of support and commitment for a basic service candidate among the consortia.
The 3 phases Initialisation, Integration and Ramping Up represent the iterative development and at the same time the filtering model for Base4NFDI services.
The criteria become more strict as a service progresses through the phases.
Phases 1 and 2 are iterative, i.e. a service-candidats might pass them more than once if necessary, thus allowing flexibility depending on the state of development and complexity.
Click here to take a look at the detailed criteria per phase.
Service Candidates might need to quit Base4NFDI's process (e.g. for technical reasons or because they are not relevant to a sufficiently large number of domains). Such services will enter a Tool Pool. They can then be used by subgroups of domains. This also means, however, that any business model for these services and their sustainability will need to be provided for outside of Base4NFDI.