Welcome back to the weekly overview of news from the field of research data management in natural science. Since this news overviews is starting to move beyond the NFDI, I decided to use a new name, but no worries, you will get the same updates as before, just more. So welcome to:  News Digest – RDM in Natural Science: Week 11

NFDI4Earth – Tutorial on Data Chunking

NFDI4Earth has published a short 11-minute tutorial on data chunking, which you can check you here. Data chunking becomes necessary when you are working with data sets, that are too large to be loaded into the memory completely.

PSDI – Data Revival: webinar recording available

How to make information from paper lab notebooks of the past years available and useable in the future? This is the topic of the newest published webinar recording of PSDI. I highly recommend checking out the video because as Samuel Munday put it in the talk, the paper lab notebooks of the past are a goldmine of knowledge. The project presented shows how this knowledge can be made accessible, by digitizing paper lab notebooks.  You can find more details in the news update here. The presentation itself is just about 35 min minutes, so take a look:

The FAIR Elephant – Gamification in ELN teaching

There is an update from myself, so I will include it here. Next Friday, March 22, I will be giving a talk at the NFDI4Chem Stammtisch, you can find more information about the Stammtisch as well as the registration here. In the talk, I will elaborate on gamification in teaching features of electronic lab notebooks, and as an example, I will show the first case of The Chemotion Files. The Chemotion Files is a collection of escape-room-like datasets which can be used with the electronic lab notebook Chemotion ELN. You can read more about it in my blog post from January

That is all from the past week. Until next time, and thank you for reading.