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

From data to AI-ready data: Six examples

I actually missed this one last week, so here it is now. In a PSDI-project six example datasets from different fields of the physical sciences (e.g. electron microscopy data, crystallisation and diffraction data, melting and boiling point data) were taking and made AI-ready. During the six cases, a practical pipeline was built, and the datasets are also published. Besides the description of the project, the datasets and pipeline authors Matthew Partridge and Aileen Day, also provided some useful links; for me, it was the first time getting into contact with Croissant, a metadata vocabulary for machine learning datasets.

Link to article on webpage of PSDI

Best practices in data curation

Agnes Jasinska et al. published a report on best practices in data curation in physical sciences and collected recommendations for the role of the PSDI. This is not only useful for the future work of the PSDI, but also provides an overview of latest practices in data curation. Provides useful links and insights, and I would generally recommend it for everybody in the field of providing data curation services or repositories. You can also find some great resources to add to your workshops on the topic of data preservation, like the TRUST Principles, the EDEN and FIDELIS projects and much more.

Link to report in Zenodo with DO: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20119004

Support for adopting ELNs in academia

The PSDI provides many services and tools that help research with the integration of electronic lab notebooks in their workflows. In a recent poster by Samantha Pearman-Kanza and Matthew Partridge you can learn more about the support. The poster is not only useful for researchers from the UK. You can find links to the PSDI Knowledge Base, the Electronic Research Notebook Community (which is open to all interested people) and much more.

Link to the poster in Zenodo with DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20155212

Outro

That’s already it for today, quite a short one. There will be no News Digest next week, but no worries, I am back on June 1st with the News Digest for weeks 21 and 22. Thanks for reading, and see you in two weeks.

Benjamin

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