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.
DAPHNE4NFDI
LabFrog: streamline & standardize workflows
A new version of LabFrog was published by Kristin Tippey and Hans-Peter Schlenvoigt, and here I need to be honest I hadn't had the chance to have a closer look at the software. I as far as I understand, it helps to standardize workflows and looks very interesting to me. I added it to my to-do list, but I cannot say much more at the moment. In case you know more or use it already let me know in the comments!
Link to the software in Zenodo with DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19884242
Link to the documentation
eLabFTW
Batch Uploads & Downloads, and collaborative researcher
The recording of the latest eLabFTW Community Meeting was uploaded to the YouTube-Channel of Nicolas CARPi. As always, I can only recommend to check out the community meetings because you will learn something new every time. This time there were two presentations, the first one by Dionyssis Antypas showing elAPI plugins for batch uploads and downloads and Leonid Bovkun providing a user's perspective on collaborative research in with eLabFTW.
Link to the blog post on the Deltablot webpage
NFDI4Earth
Data management plans with direct data integration
The DMP4NFDI incubator project of NFDI4Earth offers a centralised RDMO instance for sensor-heavy research projects with direct integration of sensor- and data management system. Learn more about the incubator project from a recent presentation by Bjarne Biskamp et al.
Link to presentation in Zenodo with DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19852409
NFDI4Chem
ChemDCAT-AP: discipline-specific metadata profile
I already mention Chem-DCAT-AP last in last week's News Digest but if you hadn't had the time to check it out, there is now also a report by Philip Strömert on the NFDI4Chem webpage. Which explains the discipline-specific metadata profile in more detail.
Link to the article on the NFDI4Chem webpage
New terminology control in the RADAR4Chem repository
The NFDI4Chem terminology collection is now available in the RADAR4Chem repository. This allows the use of standardized keywords and much more. With the use of the controlled vocabulary, data can be found much easier. Learn more about it from the article by Kerstin Soltau and Felix Bach on the NFDI4Chem Webpage.
Link to the article on the NFDI4Chem webpage
Practical tools for everyday chemists
This one is an easy recommendation, if you work in chemistry (and work a lot with structures) you should check out the following recording of a talk by Jonas Schaub and Kohulan Rajan at the NFDI4Chem Stammtisch. Three ready-to-use tools are presented that help you with converting formats, analyse substructures or draw molecules. So take the time and check out MORTAR, Cheminformatics Microservices and Chem Audit.
PSDI
Bio Simulation Data Resources (BioSimDR)
This is for all the people working with molecular simulations (e.g. on biomolecules). The Bio Simulation Data Resources (BioSimDR) by PSDI provide tools to document simulation data in an interoperable way. As I did molecular dynamics simulations in the past myself, I would love to go back and try some of the things shown in the presentations like AiiDA and such. I think BioSimDR provides very useful information and I recommend checking it out and sharing it with the communities. In an article on the PSDI webpage, you can find links to a recording a talk by Jas Kalayan as well as the slides in Zenodo.
Link to article on the PSDI webpage
The FAIR Elephant
I am very excited about this week because there is another workshop coming. This time with the Collaboratively Advancing Research Data Support (CARDS) project of the Berlin University Alliance (BUA). Usually, I focus more on natural science and life science, providing very discipline specific trainings and workshops. This time it gets a little bit broader and I had a lot of fun adding some more examples to my exercises to ensure to have some specific examples for all the participants. I think I during the week (and after the project) you will find some insights on my ko-fi page.
Outro
That is it for today. Thanks for reading, and see you next week. Benjamin If you find these weekly overviews useful, please like, and share them with your colleagues and if you want to support me even more, you can go over to my ko-fi page and buy a bag of peanuts for The FAIR Elephant. Your support is much appreciated.