FARImat Tutorial Recordings on Zenodo
Last week I reported that the recordings of the 16th FAIRmat Tutorial were available on YouTube. Now the recordings were also published on Zenodo, which makes it easier to reference for future uses.
FAIRmat Tutorial 16: Getting started with NOMAD for materials-science research data management [Video/Audio]
Link to recordings on Zenodo with DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15005550
Videos on Data Publication and Legal Aspects of RDM
NFDI4Cat has a series of videos to explain different aspects of research data management (RDM). Now they added two new videos, one regarding Data Publication and the second one and Legal Aspects of RDM. You can find both videos below, and a link to the whole playlist of videos by NFDI4Cat.
I am by no means an expert on the legal aspects of RDM, but I want to comment on one point of the legal aspects video, and would like to hear your opinion in the comments. In the video, it is mentioned that there is no copyright on the data itself, which is generally true as far as I understand (at least for most natural science data), but it is mentioned, that CC licences can still be applied. I think there is some clarification needed, since CC licences cannot be applied if the data is copyright free, besides "public domain". This is, for example, mentioned in the FAIRmat Legal Guide (link below). What do you think? Please let me know in the comments.
Link to the NFDI4Cat news page about the new videos
Link to the playlist on YouTube
Link to the FAIRmat Legal Guide on Zenodo with DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11083303
Helpdesk collaboration
NFDI consortia from geosciences, life sciences and chemistry signed a Memorandum of Understanding for a Geo-Chem-Life Science Helpdesk Cluster. The helpdesk of the different NFDI consortia want to improve the collaboration to offer better and faster support to researchers with interdisciplinary research questions. Read more about the Memorandum on the news page of NFDI4Chem. As a side note, NFDI4Earth is also part of the Geo-Chem-Life Sciences Helpdesk Cluster.
Link to the article at the NFDI4Chem webpage.
Link to Memorandum on Zenodo with DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15005550
Zenodo uploads
Updates to tow project reports were published on Zenodo. The first one is an updated milestone report on the NFDI4Earth modular course materials. If you are interested in how the courses are planned, published and developed (as well as an overview of existing course), I highly recommend to check out this report.
The second report is an updated on the deliverable report on the OneStop4All service. OneStop4All is the central access point to all NFDI4Earth services.
Modular NFDI4Earth-ready course materials published under an open license (NFDI4Earth Milestone MS1.3.5) [Project milestone]
Link to report on Zenodo with DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15196940
OneStop4All - Requirements and Concept Design (NFDI4Earth Deliverable D4.3.1) [Project deliverable]
Link to report on Zenodo with DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15187816
FAIR RDM for Chemists Workshop with NFDI4Chem
Last week was part of another FAIR Research Data Management: Basics for Chemists workshop by NFDI4Chem, this time at University of Stuttgart. Participants of the workshop were mainly researchers from the CRC 1333 which allowed us to focus on the specific needs of data management in the CRC and their disciplines. The collaboration with NFDI4Chem is always a great fun, and making the chemistry-specific workshop of the NFDI4Chem even more specific and fitting for the CRC 1333 brought me great joy.
It is nothing new, but I want to take the chance here again to advertise discipline-specific workshops. If you are a trainer or work with people on RDM topics. Make the training and examples as close to their research field as possible. It makes the communication much, much easier.
That is it for today. Thank you for checking out this news digest again and looking forward to seeing you next week.
Benjamin