News Digest – RDM in Natural Science: Week 13, 2025
New Zenodo uploads
In March, the DAPHNE4NFDI Annual Meeting took place in Berlin. Now posters from the event can be found in their Zenodo Community. There are posters of the Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration, the RWTH Aachen, the ROCK-IT project as well as RDM team of the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin. All are worth checking out, I want to highlight the poster on the Key insights from the HMC Data Professionals Survey 2024: 75% of the respondents had no training for their RDM tasks and 82% report a lack of resources.
Exploring the Open Data Landscape: The HMC Dashboard on Open and FAIR Data in the Helmholtz Association [Poster]
Link to poster on Zenodo with DOI: 0.5281/zenodo.15074694
Key Insights from the HMC Data Professionals Survey 2024: Enhancing Research Data Management Practices [Poster]
Link to poster on Zenodo with DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15074724
Improving research data management for samples: the SEPIA Sample Database for Metadata Storage and Exchange [Poster]
Link to poster on Zenodo with DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15091340
Key insights in disseminating Multidimensional Rietveld Refinement [Poster]
Link to poster on Zenodo with DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15100036
Data & Metadata in the ROCK-IT Project [Poster]
Link to poster on Zenodo with DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15096035
Activities of the HZB Research Data Management Team [Poster]
Link to poster on Zenodo with DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15095878
Community Meeting recording
Every two months there is a community meeting of eLabFTW where use cases and new features are presented. This time there were two presentations, the first one on how to use eLabFTW in teaching (an example from the University of Frankfurt) and the second one on how to establish eLabFTW as a Central University Service (an example from RWTH Aachen). Honestly, both talks are very interesting, and I highly recommend taking the time and watch the full recording.
DPG Spring Meeting of Condensed Matter Section report
With eight talks, one tutorial and a booth (together with DAPHNE4NFDI) FAIRmat contributed to the DPG Spring Meeting this March. A short report about the meeting with some impressions can now be found on their news page. The tutorial an NOMAD, which they run on the meeting is now available as a self-learning course. Check the links for more details.
Link to the newspage from FAIRmat
Link to the contribution overview during the DPG Spring Meeting
In the last week, there were quite some updates from NFDI4Cat on their news page. A few things we already covered during the weeks before, it is worth taking a look. I will link the news below and only highlight the new things.
Vocabulary Guidelines for NFDI4Cat
In case you keep track on the Voc4Cat make sure to check the new NFDI4Cat repository: Repo4Cat. The latest version (v2.2) of the guidelines for the vocabulary are available there. On Zenodo the last version was v2.1 from February 2025. So it looks like new version will only be published on Repo4Cat.
Link to the news about the latest Voc4Cat guidelines at the NFDI4Cat webpage
“58. Jahrestagung Deutscher Katalytiker” report
A report of the activities of NFDI4Cat during the 58. Jahrestagung Deutscher Katalytiker was published by NFDI4Cat. A lot of different materials are linked in the report, so make sure to check it out. I would like to highlight the slides of the “service show”, it is a great overview of the services of NFDI4Cat.
Link to the meeting report by NFDI4Cat
Link to the “Service Show” slides at Repo4Cat
It looks like that NFDI4Cat is moving away from Zenodo and is increasingly using Repo4Cat, but from this meeting there are still two posters published on Zenodo, both on Voc4Cat:
Voc4Cat: a sustainable glue connecting disciplines and applications towards a FAIR catalysis [Poster]
Link to poster on Zenodo with DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15095808
Voc4Cat: a sustainable, high TRL toolkit bridging cross-disciplinary applications in support of FAIR data-driven catalysis [Poster]
Link to poster on Zenodo with DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15095077
New publication
A new tool called CaRIn (Catalysis Research with Infrared Spectroscopy), which allows “peak broading for simulated IR spectra”, and is freely accessible in the browser, is discussed in a recent paper by NFDI4Cat. The out the latest report, the publication as well as the tool itself.
New Zenodo uploads
Last week, Till Biskup gave a talk at the NFDI4Chem Stammtisch with the title: Research Data Management: Cargo Cult or Indispensable Prerequisite for Scholarship? Unfortunately, I had to miss the presentation since I was giving a workshop at the Forschungszentrum Jülich, but the slides are now available on Zenodo and look very promising. Luckily, NFDI4Chem is recording their Stammtisch, and I am looking forward to watching it on YouTube.
In addition, the slide from a talk at the E-Science-Tage was uploaded on the topic of implementing digital and data literacy in chemistry-specific teaching.
Research Data Management: Cargo Cult or Indispensable Prerequisite for Scholarship? [Presentation]
Link to the presentation on Zenodo with DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15103295
Digital and data literacy: challenges and solutions for implementation in chemistry-specific curricular teaching [Presentation]
Link to poster on Zenodo with DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15082589
New Zenodo uploads
Two new reports are available, the first one describes the cooperation between NFDI4Earth and re3data, the reason for the cooperation as well as the established workflows. The second report checks the data handling solutions in the NFDI4Earth pilots and whether they use data cube solutions.
NFDI4Earth Cooperation – re3data (NFDI4Earth White Paper) [Report]
Link to report on Zenodo with DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15095431
Review of pilot support and interaction with the academy (NFDI4Earth D2.5.10) [Report]
Link to report on Zenodo with DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15090535
DPG Spring Meeting of the Section Matter and Cosmos
PUNCH4NFDI will be part of the DPG Spring Meeting of the Section Matter and Cosmos at the end of March and beginning of April. Check out the presentations by PUNCH4NFDI and do not miss out.
Last week, I was at the Forschungszentrum Jülich to give a two-day workshop on research data management basics with the Digital Research Academy (DRA). It was my first time and Jülich, and it was a great workshop. With the PhD students, we started with the basics of research data management and discussed how they could improve their data handling, but then also took a look at the different services and tools Jülich is offering their researchers. Most of the time, the researchers are not aware that their local teams offer great tools and support. So if you think: “My university is not offering anything”. Please check with your university library, maybe there is a team there 😉
Tomorrow I will travel to Jena and join The Fellowship of the Data Meeting and I am very much looking forward to it. Who will be there? Let’s have a chat.
This is it for today, quite a long one. I hope you enjoyed it, have a great week, and thanks for reading.
See you next Monday (or in Jena).