Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure

An Integrated Data Infrastructure for the Physical Sciences

PSDI aims to accelerate research in the physical sciences by providing a data infrastructure that brings together and builds upon the various data systems researchers currently use.

Connecting Digital Research Infrastructures for the Physical Sciences

The aim of PSDI is to enable researchers in the physical sciences to handle data more easily by connecting the different data infrastructures they use. PSDI will connect and enhance existing infrastructure in Physical Sciences.

Through PSDI researchers will be able to:

Find and Access reference quality data from commercial and open sources
Combine data from different sources
Share data, software and models including experimental and simulation data
Use AI to explore data
Learn how to make the results of their research open and FAIR

The current phase of PSDI, Phase 2, which started in January 2024 continues to build upon the work carried out in The Pilot and Phase 1 of the project

In the pilot phase we undertook community engagement, scoping and design work and as an output of the pilot work we produced a series of recommendations. In Phase 2, we focused on activities aiding the establishment of PSDI whilst continuing community engagement activities.

PSDI Pilot Project

Recommendations

Phase 1

Current Work

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Our team

Our large team is spread across multiple institutions, departments and geographic sites in the United Kingdom. The core of the team are based at the Rutherford Appleton & Daresbury Laboratory sites of STFC (Science and Technology Facilities Council) and the University of Southampton. Staff at these locations are also joined by a number of partner organisations. To find out more, please go to our Team Page or click View All People below.