Happy New Year and welcome to the News Digest – RDM in Natural Science! In 2026, I will continue to provide you with information about the latest developments in the field of research data management, focusing specifically on natural sciences and provide a weekly concise overview. I am excited about the new year, so let us dive right in.

NFDI4Cat

New version of the voc4cat template

The workflow and template for the voc4cat vocabulary was updated and is now available as version v26.1. Be aware that with this release, the version numbering for the voc4cat template was switched to calendar-based versioning, for more information see links below.

Link to workflow in Zenodo with DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18116056
Link to information about switch of version numbering on GitHub

Software updates

NOMAD simulations plugin: v0.6.0
Link to release notes on GitHub
Link to software in Zenodo with DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18129840

Outro

Well, it is no surprise, but that’s already it for today, due to the holidays a very short News Digest, but I am sure that the News Digests of the coming weeks will be full of loads more updates. What are RDM projects you are looking forward to start or finish in 2026? Let me know in the comments.

Thanks for reading, and see you next week.
Benjamin

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