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Lisa Amelung, Verena Anthofer, Renita Danabalan, Évariste Demandt, Barbara Ebert, Elisabeth Elschner, Sara Espinoza, Jan Eufinger, Stefanie Fuchsloch, Barbara Götz, Christin Henzen, Johannes Hunold, Theresa Idda, Lukas Jansen, Ulrich Krieger, Cristina M. Rodrigues, Maria Meister, Bernhard Miller, Sarah Pitroff, Christian Popp, Aleksandra Pushkina, Nicole Schatlowski, Sonja Schimmler, Christiane Schneide, Thomas Schörner, Thorsten Schwetje, Jörg Seegert, Thorsten Trippel, Judith Weber, Elena Wössner, Wolf Zinke

• This White Paper sets out commonly agreed definitions on activities of consortia within NFDI. It aims to provide a common basis for reporting and reference regarding selected questions of cross-consortial relevance in DFG’s template for the Interim Reports. The questions were prioritised by an NFDI Task Force on Evaluation and Reporting (formerly Task Force Monitoring) as a result of discussing possible answers to the DFG template. In this process the need to agree on a generalizable meaning of terms commonly used in the context of NFDI, and reporting in particular, were identified from cross-consortial perspectives. Questions that showed the highest requirement on clarification are discussed in this White Paper. As NFDI evolves, the Task Force will likely propose further joint approaches for reporting in information infrastructures. While each of broad relevance, the questions addressed relate to substantially different aspects of consortia’s work. They are thus also structured slightly different.