Zenodo uploads

New updates to some of the NOMAD plugins, as well as a new version of NOMAD CAMELS.

NOMAD Measurements Plugin [Software]
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14825951

NOMAD CAMELS: Configurable Application for Measurements, Experiments and Laboratory Systems [Sotware]
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14811502

NOMAD Schema Plugin Simulation Workflow [Software]
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14803308

Zenodo uploads

So more work was done on the voc4cat-template and voc4cat-tool, which help to maintain the vocabulary with the help of GitHub.

nfdi4cat/voc4cat-template: Release 0.9.0 [Software]
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14800689

nfdi4cat/voc4cat-tool: Release 0.9.0 [Software]
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14800634

DALIA – A basis service in NFDI?

This update is not chemistry-specific, but NFDI4Chem has a short report about it on their webpage. The Data Literacy Alliance (DALIA) has submitted a proposal to become a BASE4NFDI service. DALIA has the goal to provide a centralized platform for teaching and training materials in data literacy as well as research data management. You can read more in the article by NFDI4Chem:
https://www.nfdi4chem.de/dalia-wants-to-become-a-basic-service-in-the-nfdi/.

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You are planing to give an online training course, but are unsure what you need to keep in mind? NFDI4Chem published a one-page overview that helps you with preparing your online lecture.

23 TrainingThings For Effective Webinars [Publication]
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14792536

YouTube playlist and NFDI4Earth services

A few new videos from NFDI4Earth are available on YouTube, and put in a playlist, on the services of NFDI4Earth. In the short videos, you can learn about the Knowledge Hub as well as the different functionalities of OneStop4All. OneStop4All is the central access point to NFDI4Earth services and resources. Here in the News Digest, I included the short introduction to OneStop4All, but you can find the whole playlist here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl0Z002DBG8mGMJ2vV7PcRKxmmT_zXJSd

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In need for an overview of NFDI4Earth? They published a poster with a few use-cases as well as an overview of their “products and activities”, also an update on FAIR@HPC was published. The first version was from 2022, now recommendations and comments on topics like data lakes and ML/AI have been added. Furthermore, comments on the status of recommendations from 2022 were added. Definitely worth a look.

NFDI4Earth – the National Research Data Infrastructure for the Earth System Sciences Community [Poster]
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14832912

FAIR@HPC – Improving HPC usage in ESS by FAIR data and compute services (2024/25 update) [Working paper]
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14796888

PSDI Webinar recording – Sample tracking with Ampletracks

On the YouTube channel of PSDI a new webinar recording is available. This one is from March 2024 and is showing the software Ampletracks. A web-app for sample tracking in and out of laboratory environments. It looks quite interesting, and I will take a closer look at the demo in the next few weeks. If you are interested in this software, I recommend to check out the full video, below you can check out the live demo part of the talk.

Love Data Week 2025

Today starts the Love Data Week 2025. During this week a lot of talks, coffee lectures, seminars, demonstrations and workshops are held on the topic of research data management and more. You should definitely take the time and join some of those events. You can find the international program here:
https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/about/cms/3799?utm_source=all&utm_medium=all&utm_campaign=LDW23&utm_id=LDW23

And for the German-speaking community, the program is collected by forschungsdaten.info here:
https://forschungsdaten.info/fdm-im-deutschsprachigen-raum/love-data-week-2025/

The website is in German, but there are also some events which are in English. So brows the program and check out some fantastic events.

In Leipzig with NFDI4Chem

In the past weeks I already mentioned the cooperation with NFDI4Chem, and I am very happy to support them as a trainer at their next FAIR research data management: Basics for chemists workshop in Leipzig on Thursday and Friday this week. You can check out the event on the NFDI4Chem webpage:
https://www.nfdi4chem.de/event/fair-research-data-management-basics-for-chemists-in-leipzig/

On BlueSky I will post some pictures and reports from the workshop, so if you are interested in getting some insights on these workshops, make sure to follow me there: @thefairelephant.bsky.social.

That is it for today and as always, thanks for reading and see you next week!
Benjamin

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