Luxembourg National Data Service LNDS
- Link and contact
- LNDS
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Establishment year
- 2022
- History
- In respective strategies on the national data economy and national research and innovation, Luxembourg has identified data reuse as a key enabler of data-driven innovation. In line with the EU Data Strategy and in preparation for the upcoming Data Governance Act, in 2022, the Luxembourgish Government and has established the Luxembourg National Data Service. The LNDS provides services enabling responsible secondary use of public sector data for public and private partners and support the sharing and re-use of public sector data, in a trustable manner.
- Skills4EOSC CC Entry since
- 2024
- Organization/unit structure, e.g.
- LNDS is a not-for-profit organisation established and owned by the Luxembourgish government. LNDS is governed by its Board of Directors representing the Ministry of Research & Higher Education, Ministry of Digitalisation, Ministry of Economy, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Social Security, Ministry of State, Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH) and Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER). The LNDS delivers its services to national data partners, research institutes and public administrations. The LNDS services are built by lean and expert teams in ELSI, Data Science, Data Engineering and Data Stewardship. Our teams adopt agile practices within a flat organisational structure.
- Competences
- FAIR data management and stewardship
- Training
- Community management
- Sharing sensitive controlled-access data
- Data preservation
- Ethical Legal Societal Implications (ELSI) in data sharing
- Individuals and Institutions/Organizations
- The LNDS engages with partner organisations in data projects focusing on secondary use. Our partners represent governmental entities, research institutions, and the private sector. LNDS also coordinates the National Data Management Community of Practice, which allows us to engage with individuals, most of whom are from LNDS partner organisations. The community provides for knowledge exchange among organisations, awareness raising on new legal frameworks or policies and information briefing on resources and services available to enable FAIR data management at a national level. Internationally, LNDS develops infrastructural components that will allow Luxembourg to join various data spaces. We participate in the Genomic Data Ifrastructure (GDI) and Beyond 1 Million Genomes (B1MG) projects. The LNDS is also a recipient of the EU Direct Grant for developing digital business capabilities for the Luxembourgish Health Data Access Body (HDAB)
- Services offered
- The LNDS service portfolio includes expertise, capabilities, tools, infrastructure and data services. A wider range of services is listed on our website. The services identified for CC activities are listed below. This list may be updated.
- Data Management and Stewardship Support
- Data Management National Community of Practice
- Research Data Archival
- Data Access Request and Review
- Data Cataloguing
- ELSI and Data Governance and Consulting?
- Resources
- LNDS website, LNDS Knowledge Hub (under development)
- Operational Tools
- The Luxembourg National Data Catalogue, a metadata catalogue that presents an overview of data held in Luxembourg's public sector. The catalogue is DCAT-AP 3 and primarily focuses on indexing sensitive (or controlled access) datasets.
- Is part of EOSC ecosystem?
- LNDS has expressed interest in becoming a Node in the EOSC federation.
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