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Präsentiert beim Workshop "Wohin damit? Storing and reusing my language data" am 22. Juni 2023 in Mannheim. Die Präsentation wurde im Kontext der Arbeit des Vereins Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur (NFDI) e.V. gehalten. NFDI wird von der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und den 16 Bundesländern finanziert, und das Konsortium Text+ wird gefördert durch die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) – Projektnummer 460033370. Die Autor:innen bedanken sich für die Förderung sowie Unterstützung. Ein Dank geht außerdem an alle Einrichtungen und Akteur:innen, die sich für den Verein und dessen Ziele engagieren.

This chapter examines the response of the populist radical right Alternative for Germany (AfD) to the COVID-19 crisis in the Federal Republic of Germany. It demonstrates that the AfD showed a populist reaction to the pandemic in two ways. First, it put the people at the center of its strategy and presented itself as an advocate for those who suffered not from the virus directly but ostensibly from the government’s response. Second, the AfD perpetuated the crisis by reinterpreting the government’s countermeasures as an authoritarian threat to democracy. The behavior of the AfD can be explained by three factors: the responses of the government to the pandemic, the dynamic of protest movements taking place in Germany, and conflicts within the AfD. The chapter offers an in-depth analysis of the AfD in the pandemic and draws on both quantitative and qualitative data.

The social, behavioural, educational, and economic sciences offer indispensable perspectives and responses to the grand societal challenges the world is facing today. In addressing these challenges, the disciplines represented in KonsortSWD work with a range of different data types. These data are typically sensitive due to legal or ethical constraints and they are frequently generated for non-scientific purposes. KonsortSWD aims to support the research data management (RDM) needs of its communities, which increasingly collaborate in multi- and interdisciplinary research projects. The (co-)applicant institutions bring their long-standing experience in operating community-driven research data infrastructures to the NFDI. Our mission is to develop – strengthen, widen, deepen – a research data infrastructure for the study of human society. This effort is to be primarily user-driven and addresses the needs of our research communities. The core of KonsortSWD’s RDM strategy is to provide researchers and research data centres (RDCs) with the tools and services they need for managing and sharing (new) sensitive and non-sensitive data in compliance with the FAIR principles. This includes supporting sustainable RDM in all phases of the research data lifecycle and securing data accessibility with an awareness of ethical and legal aspects. KonsortSWD will increase efficiency in RDM processes by coordinating · data producers with technical expertise to simplify sustainable RDM throughout the data lifecycle, · a growing infrastructure of currently 34 accredited RDCs with 3,940 datasets, 46,000 data users, and a staff of 285 full time-equivalents (in 2018), · the German Data Forum (RatSWD), where data users and producers jointly facilitate access to research data, · a forum for ethical reflection to support researchers and their institutions and to discuss and disseminate standards for data-driven, high quality research on human subjects up to entire societies. KonsortSWD combines a multi-stakeholder approach with transparent governance: a Steering Committee is in charge of operations, an Advisory Board with elected community representatives provides strategic feedback, and a Consortial Conference helps to disseminate KonsortSWD’s services and to collect feedback. The Task Areas (TAs) focus on: (1) Community Participation. (2) Data Access, (3) Data Production, (4) Research (Data) Ethics, and (5) Technical Solutions.