NFFA-Europe is setting up the first integratetd Information and Data management Repository Platform (IDRP) for the nanoscience community within the NFFA-Europe project. For efficient data archiving, it is essential to incorporate existing standards, recommendations, and evolving best practices of data management, as well as to employ existing e-infrastructures, where applicable.

To this purpose, NFFA is developing a close and collaborative cooperation with EUDAT, a Pan-European infrastructure providing data services, training and consultancy for research communities.

As a data pilot, NFFA decided to adopt the emerging EUDAT service called B2SHARE, while providing useful feedback for its tuning or extension.

The integration of B2SHARE into the NFFA-Europe IDRP infrastructure will allow the users to access, share and publish their long tail data, becoming a recommended part of the mainstream in nanoscience.