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News Digest – RDM in Natural Science: Week 20

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byBenjamin

I started these weekly news digests because I knew that there was a lot going on in the field of research data management in natural science, and it is difficult to stay up-to-date, but honestly, there is going on even more than I thought and I really enjoy doing these summaries. So let us dive into the news of the last week.

NFDI4Cat – Explanatory videos

NFDI4Cat has added two new explanatory videos to their YouTube channel. This time on the topics of How to make data reusable and Databases and repositories. In the past, they already published videos about NFDI4Cat, Metadata, Ontologies and electronic lab notebooks, you can find the playlist here.

NFDI4Chem – Open data vs FAIR data

In a short article, NFDI4Chem explains the differences between Open data and FAIR data. Two concepts that get mixed up a lot. You can find the article here.

PUNCH4NFDI – Splinter Meeting

In September, there will be the Annual Meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft and there will be a splinter meeting with the title: Data-intensive Radio Astronomy: Challenges and Opportunities in Science and Data Management, which is co-organized by members of PUNCH4NFDI. You can find out more about it here.

Physical Sciences in NFDI – Workshop recording available

A video recording of the second workshop on FAIR Data Principles in Physical Sciences in NFDI, which took place in April, was uploaded to the NFDI4Cat-YouTube channel (here). During the workshop, three use cases were presented:

  • Curating Data Flows: Leveraging REANA for Reproducible Analyses of Dimensionality Reduction Workflows (PUNCH4NFDI)
  • Creating and running automated workflows for material science simulations (NFDI-MatWerk)
  • Overarching Data Management Ecosystem HELIPORT (DAPHNE4NFDI

It is always great to see the different use cases and I recommend checking them out. But I specifically want to point you to the introduction of this workshop where the FAIR data principles are explained by FAIRmat with the help of Lego Bricks. It only takes 9 minutes and works great. You can also find the slides of this intro on Zenodo.

HeFDI -Data Week 03.-07. June 2024

The Hessian Research Data Infrastructures (HeFDI) is organizing a Data Week in June with plenty of different talks and workshops. You can find the whole program here. There are of course, some more general topics, e.g. in the Track 1.1: Introduction to Research Data Management (RDM) but I would like to highlight also Track 1.2: Research Software and Data with Jupyter and GitLab, Track 4.2: Electronic Lab Notebooks (mainly taking about eLabFTW) and Track 3.2: RDM in the Natural- & Life Sciences. I recommend checking out the whole program.

Zenodo uploads:

PUNCH4NFDI

New article upload about PUNCH4NFDI, their compute and storage infrastructures as well as workflows.

Federated Heterogeneous Compute and Storage Infrastructure for the PUNCH4NFDI Consortium
https://zenodo.org/records/11196897

Outro

As additional information, I will be giving a talk and live demonstration about device integration in electronic lab notebooks at the University of Münster as part of their eScience at NWZ events. The event is not open, but I’m very much looking forward to discussing their specific questions and focussing on all the things The FAIR Elephant is about: being your strategic collaboration partner for FAIR RDM in natural sciences. I will definitely let you know how it went.
Thank you very much for reading, and see you next week.

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