Introducing FID Physik – the new information service and metadata hub for physics

Starting in February 2026, FID Physik, the discipline-specific information service for physics, is going to provide a free, open science -minded information portfolio tailored to meet the needs of cutting-edge physics research. FID Physik will offer a suite of services to facilitate discovery and retrieval of relevant literature, most notably a literature search engine based on quality-curated corpus. Complementary tools include support of analysis and comparison of publications via visualisation powered by knowledge graphs and large language models (LLMs) and a consolidated conference overview. We have set ourselves the goal to improve the state of metadata for physics research since high-quality metadata form the necessary basis of the advanced, semantic services that we are envisioning. Crucially, FID Physik is going to set up a Physics Metadata Forum, to raise awareness for metadata in the research community, and to address researchers’ metadata needs. The metadata forum ties into a more extensive community engangement that will ensure alignment of our services with needs from the community. FID Physik is funded by DFG under project number 558452925, via the “Discipline-Specific Information Services” programme, for an initial period of three years.