The purpose of this guide is to support service teams in the Base4NFDI Initialisation Phase with their service design, which is a prerequisite for their own basic service development. The document gives an overview over the general landscape basic service development should consider and describes dimensions of service design. It provides an overview over related publications that should be taken note of during service design or that can provide further insights and support. This guide is part of Deliverables D1.3.1 and D1.3.2 of the Base4NFDI project. Funded by DFG as part of NFDI. Grant Numbers: 521453681, 521460392, 521462155, 521463400, 521466146, 521471126, 521473512, 521474032, 521475185, 521476232 Many thanks to all reviewers from the Base4NFDI project. Change notes: 2026-04-27 (v 2): initialisation phase reporting deliverables were renamed from D.TA1.X to D.Ini.X to introduce more transparency and to be consistent with the reporting deliverables in integration phase and ramp-up 2026-02-09 (v 1.1): reference to EOSC Federation Handbook was updated to v2, reference to EOSC website for German national node was added
Arndt et al. (2025) studied this question.