The First Community Workshop took place on October 12, 2018 in Berlin. Ten researcher from different disciplines evaluated the current developments in GeRDI and a vivid discussion evolved to what extent GeRDI can support the research work along the Data Life Cycle. We would like to express our sincere appreciation to all participants for their very valuable feedback. The main results are:
- There is a need of nomenclatures and standard vocabularies for the research communities and linkages across disciplines.
- Information on data quality as part of metadata may not get lost because of a generic meta data schema.
- GeRDI can bring together communities for an interdisciplinary exchange and can transfer the discussed results into the concrete infrastructure (GeRDI).
The GeRDI project focuses on the development of a sustainable Generic Research Data Infrastructure. Its goal is to enable scientists to search, use and re-use external research data. In the current pilot phase, the software development is driven by research questions. These questions originate from participating communities in various research disciplines – marine sciences, but also digital humanities, bioinformatics, and others. An exemplary research question is “How marine fisheries impact on global food security up to 2050”. 
Jakob Tendel talked about „User-focused Service Development in the GeRDI Project” on Wednesday at the TNC18 conference in the session “User Requirements Odyssey”. The focus was on our community management and our feedback process. The concept of the project-funded community manager was praised by the audience.