DAPHNE4NFDI - Improving Research data management at Synchrotron Facilities

Advancements in synchrotron and X-ray free-electron sources and associated developments in instrumentation and techniques offer many new possibilities for researchers. At the same time there is increasing demand and pressure to implement the FAIR data principles by which data should be made Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. The consortium DAPHNE4NFDI (DAta from PHoton and Neutron Experiments for NFDI) addresses this challenge within the German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI), and also in relation to European / worldwide initiatives. This article gives an overview of our activities and elaborates on our progress, showcasing developments in some of our use cases, including: (1) X-ray reflectivity (XRR), (2) X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (XPCS) and (3) X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS).