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.

NFDI4Chem

Using RDF & Co for better information

Not sure what the Resource Description Framework is? You just need a refresher on semantic web in general? Then I highly recommend check out the latest upload of NFDI4Chem. It is a talk by Egon Willighagen with the title: Bridging chemistry and biology with RDF, ontologies, cheminformatics and open science. Highly informative, well-structured and provides great insights on how to use these to our advantage, for better information linking.

Link to presentation in Zenodo with DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18431230

Gamification for workshops: SmartClue

This one is for all you out there that are providing workshops on and are always on the lookout to include gamification to make their workshops more engaging. Annett Schröter et al. of NFDI4Chem published their version of a word-guessing game to recap information that was provided during a workshop. Specially useful if you run multi-day workshops or different modules. This one is of course (more or less) chemistry-specific but easy adaptable to user fields. I have run it myself in the past, and it always works like a charm.

Link to publication in Zenodo with DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19694961

RADAR4Chem within the NFDI infrastructure

In the last News Digests RADAR4Chem was quite present and today there is another look at the repository. This time Kerstin Soltau, Christian Bonatto Minella and Felix Bach explain in a poster how the chemistry-specific repository RADAR4Chem integrates into the NFDI infrastructure. Should you join the NFDI4Chem Consortium Meeting this week, you will be able to see the poster live and discuss with the authors.

Link to poster in Zenodo with DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19372186

Outro

That’s already it for today, quite a short one. Thanks for reading, and see you next week.

Benjamin

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