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Germany's National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI, Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur) comprises 26 consortia, each providing data management services for a specific domain or methodology. Consortia operate as cooperative projects funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation). Additionally, the consortia are reflected as departments of the NFDI association. A central aim of NFDI is to cooperatively build a domainand method-spanning research data infrastructure embodied by the vision of OneNFDI, i.e., the desired convergence of multiple infrastructures for RDM across domains into a comprehensive, flexible network of interconnected services. This vision drives extensive cross-consortial collaboration facilitating data to become a common good for excellent research. Such collaborations include sections of the NFDI association addressing overarching topics ; the cross-consortia project Base4NFDI ; and task forces on governance, sustainability, evaluation and reporting, and the implementation of technical tools. NFDI as a whole needs to assess its impact as required by the Scientific Senate of NFDI and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), and each consortium must monitor progress and performance in serving their scientific communities. Therefore, a robust monitoring and reporting strategy is needed, built on overarching KPIs collected with a standardized, yet sufficiently flexible database facilitating both internal evaluation and external reporting. In 2023, the Task Force Evaluation and Reporting (TFER) compiled and devised criteria for quantitative and—importantly—qualitative performance indicators, introducing distinct definitions and parameters for reporting on each consortium's progress. These served as a reference for the DFG's design of a data sheet template with over 40 indicators, now compulsory in reports and follow-up proposals submitted to the DFG. Several indicators pose socio-technical challenges to ensuring accurate and meaningful assessment. ...
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