Welcome back to the weekly news digest of The FAIR Elephant, where we take a look at the latest news in the field of research data management in natural science.

NFDI4Chem – Integrating digital literacy into teaching

NFDI4Chem published an interview with Prof. Dr. Georg Manolikakes about the topic of integrating electronic lab notebooks into teaching. He goes into details about how it started, what problems were they encountered and why he started dong it. I particularly like one point Prof. Dr. Georg Manolikakes mentioned as one part of the motivation to start teaching the usage of ELNs to students:

I first worked with an electronic laboratory notebook in 2004 during an internship in industry. This has been common practice in industry for a long time. That’s why we wanted students to start documenting their experiments with ELNs as early as possible, because they will have to do it later anyway.

– Prof. Dr. Georg Manolikakes

You can read the full interview here.

Physical Sciences in NFDI – Workshop on use cases

The NFDI consortia in the field of physical sciences are organizing a workshop on use cases together. This time with use cases from PUNCH4NFDI, NFDI-MatWerk and DAPHNE4NFDI:
PUNCH4NFDI – Curating Data Flows: Leveraging REANA for Reproducible Analyses of Dimensionality Reduction Workflows
NFDI-MatWerk – Creating and running automated workflows for material science simulations
DAPHNE4NFDI: Overarching Data Management Ecosystem HELIPORT

You can find more information on the event page or the event LinkedIn page.

This is already the second workshop on use cases organized by Physical Sciences in NFDI, you can check out the recording of the first on here. There, a general introduction in to FAIR data is given as well as use cases from FAIRmat and NFDI4Chem.

Zenodo uploads:

That is it for the news update, but there were also some new publications on Zenodo, so let us check them out.

DAPHNE4NFDI

Three presentation were uploaded by DAPHNE4NFDI. One on the topic of sample environment in x-ray and neutron experiments and how to handle metadata with a Sample Environment Communication Protocol (SECoP) as a common standard. The other two talks are on the topic of a XAS reference database in general as well as the database RefXAS.

SECoP and SECoP@HMC Metadata in the Sample Environment Communication Protocol
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10925736

RefXAS: XAS reference database under DAPHNE4NFDI
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10948333

XAS reference database under DAPHNE4NFDI
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10940229

FAIRmat

A presentation about the FAIR Data Quality Metrics in NOMAD was uploaded by FAIRmat. With a DFT calculation example they show how the metadata framework in NOMAD works and how the FAIR principles work in action.

FAIR Data Quality Metrics in NOMAD
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10887684

NFDI4Cat

A new version of Voc4Cat was published and extends the older version from September 2023. In case you missed the news about Voc4Cat and want to know more, you can find additional information here.

nfdi4cat/voc4cat: v2024-04-08
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10939767

Outro

That is it for today. I think the weekly news digest has a good length and is not getting too long, but if you are aware of other sources, which you haven’t seen covered in one of the latest news digest, please let me know! And with this, I want to thank you for reading, and until next time!