Metadata management at national research centres
In our discussions with researchers, one of the biggest points is, to make researchers understand that the documentation of metadata is key to a FAIR data documentation and their reusability. And we know that this can already be challenging for small working groups (without the proper tools), but now think about a large national research centres, and the challenges they are facing.
DAPHNE4NFDI has published a collection of presentations and posters about the metadata management at DESY, the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (German Electron Synchrotron). You can imagine that with its multiple beamlines, a lot of data (and metadata) is collected in different projects. With SciCat, a metadata catalogue, DESY is now on the way to improve the data handling. The collection is worth a look and next time you talk to your beamline researchers make sure to mention DESY and the effort they put into improving data handling. They even have a place for publishing data (if possible) which is still under development, but you can already access: public-data.desy.de.
Meta Data management with SciCat at DESY: DOI minting service status update. [Poster]
Link to poster on Zenodo with DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15961049
Meta Data management with SciCat – a catalogue for DESY's Photon Science Users [Poster]
Link to poster on Zenodo with DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15959791
Meta Data management with SciCat – a catalogue for DESY's Photon Science Users [Poster]
Link to poster on Zenodo with DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15797060
Updates from DESY [Presentation]
Link to presentation on Zenodo with DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15827103
Facility Update: DESY [Presentation]
Link to presentation on Zenodo with DOI10.5281/zenodo.15903904
New materials through data reuse
Why do we put so much effort in teaching fundamentals in RDM, develop new tools, workflows, add new features to electronic lab notebooks or develop new controlled vocabularies? The reason is to improve science, to let researchers work and use resources more efficiently. In this talk by Dr. Janine George, published in the FAIRmat YouTube-Channel, it is shown how published data can help with finding new materials. If you every need an example for data reuse, definitely check out this talk. Do you know of other examples for data reuse? Or did you work on a project that reused published data?
Small funding great results - NFDI4Earth Pilots
In NFDI4Earth the so called NFDI4Earth Pilots are smaller projects, usually running for a year with the very specific goals to reach in this time. One of these project was GeoComBi. The project had the goal to "enhance video and image annotation workflows by incorporating geospatial context information display for BIIGLE. BIIGLE is an open-source image and video annotation platform widely used in Earth and marine sciences", as it is written on the NFDI4Earth website. A now published project report on Zenodo gives more inside about the project. Do you know of other successful smaller projects funds like the NFDI4Earth Pilots? Feel free to share them in the comments.
GeoComBi - Geospatial context enriched image annotation in BIIGLE 2.0 [Report]
Link to report on Zenodo with DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15877738
Open Science overview and resource collection
If you are reading this News Digest, the chances are high that you know what Open Science is and the differences between Open Data and FAIR data, but I still highly recommend the talk by Dr. Cerys Willoughby on the topic published on the PSDI YouTube-Channel. It's just getting to the point and is a fantastic resource collection, e.g. of successful Open Science project (I link one in the video below) and general information about Open Science. And if by chance you are not familiar with Open Science, or think you could need an update, then this is a must-watch!
Simple and useful - The new PUNCH4NFDI handouts
Flagging this for people looking for short and information-rich overviews of concepts in RDM. The newly published PUNCH4NFDI handouts tackle topics like, how to handle big data, what is citizen science, the NFDI and much, much more. You should add this to your collection, could be a great resource for your next presentation or consultation.
PUNCH4NFDI handouts [Collection of Flyers]
Link to the collection of flyers on Zenodo with DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15834948
Outro
Well, thank you for checking out this News Digest again. That is it for today. I hope you found something useful, if so, let me know in the comments and see you next week.
Benjamin