Welcome to the News Digest – RDM in Natural Science. Each week, I explore the latest developments in research data management, focusing specifically on natural sciences, and provide a concise overview. So let us dive right in.

PSDI

Data conversion made easy

Working with multiple sources of data often has the consequence that one has to work with many different file formats. Harmonizing these file formats by converting them is one central challenge in working with data. Often, conversion is connected to information loss. PSDI is tackling this challenge with their Data Conversion Service. Just a few weeks back a short introduction video was provided on the YouTube-Channel of PSDI, now an article was published on the PSDI webpage. Providing details on why they established this service in the first place and which approach they choose. Read more on the PSDI webpage.

Link to article on PSDI webpage

Love Data Week 2026

From February 9th to February 13th the Love Data Week 2026 takes place. A week full of existing workshops and lectures on the topic of research data management. I highly recommend to check out the program and visit at least one event. Let me know in the comments, which events will you visit?

Link to the International Love Data Week program
Link to the German Love Data Week program

Software

FAIRmat

NOMAD Perovskite Solar Cells Database v1.2.13
Link to release notes in GitHub
Link to software in Zenodo with DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18471215

NFDI4Earth

dpabon/YAXArraysToolbox.jl: altitude functionality removed v0.3.7
Link to release notes in GitHub
Link to software in Zenodo with DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18480530

Outro

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Benjamin

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