Energy system research has become more and more reliant on modelling and simulation approaches. These endeavours are enabled by continuously improving tools and methods for developing, maintaining and sharing of digital objects (DO) in research, namely models and data. Knowledge on how to better conduct, share, and archive one’s research has become increasingly complex and challenging to manage for individual researchers or single research groups. However, there exists a plethora of best practices, guidelines on how to prepare data, models, and results in ways that make them easier to discover, verify, and build upon. In this task area, we follow a requirements-driven process that takes the envisioned users, in particular energy researchers, into focus to ultimately provide a collection of best practices for energy researchers. The requirements analysis also informs the design process of the NFDI4Energy service portfolios. The most prominent product of our work will be the service Best Practice, which curates and presents the current best practices from the energy system research community.
Objectives
- Collect and update service portfolio requirements by the energy research communities
- Create a collection for sharing best practices, community guidelines and access points to the community services
- Continuously monitor, adapt and improve offerings to community feedback
- Develop guidelines materials and tutorials for best practice in energy system research
Participating partners
- Soziologisches Forschungsinstitut Göttingen (SOFI)
- Reiner Lemoine Institut
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
- Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
- Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
- OFFIS – Institut für Informatik
Services used or developed
Links to output that has been generated
- D1.1.4.1 Platform requirements analysis
- Open Science
- Current Insights From Task Area 1 in NFDI4Energy: Building and Serving the Energy Research Community
- Enhancing Software Sustainability: Transferring Open-Science Solutions from ZLE to NFDI4Energy
- Enhancing Software Sustainability: Transferring Open-Science Solutions from ZLE to NFDI4Energy – Presentation
- Doing What is the Best: Best Practices in Energy Research A Structured Literature Review

Lead Task Area 1
Luca Manzek
OFFIS e. V. Institute for Information Technology
Researcher