Welcome to the latest News Digest! Each week, I explore the latest developments in research data management, focusing specifically on natural sciences, and provide a concise overview. Let’s dive right in!
Article published: LLMs and Chemistry
How good are Large Language Models (LLMs) in answering chemistry related questions? And how can we evaluate the performance of LLMs regarding chemistry? The latest article with participation of FAIRmat with the title A framework for evaluating the chemical knowledge and reasoning abilities of large language models against the expertise of chemists, published in Nature Chemistry, is answering these questions. The framework has the name ChemBench and in a past News Digest I already reported about it. So check out the news page of FAIRmat, or the article directly, or visit the ChemBench webpage and compete against the LLMs.
Link to the article in Nature Chemistry with DOI: 10.1038/s41557-025-01815-x
New Zenodo uploads
Two new reports on project deliverables are available in the Zenodo community of NFDI4Earth. The first one is dealing with their OneStop4All service, and how feedback helped to optimize the service. The second report is on the NFDI4Earth pilot projects of 2024 and describes what they have learned from these projects.
Review of support requests (NFDI4Earth Deliverable D2.1.2) [Project deliverable]
Link to document in Zenodo with DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15527151
Living document synthesising the roadmap from pilot experiences and community feedback (NFDI4Earth Deliverable D1.1.6) [Project deliverable]
Link to document in Zenodo with DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15526849
New Zenodo upload
Two weeks ago, I mentioned that PSDI has a new webpage, which offers easier access to their resources. Now a new set of slides from a presentation was uploaded to Zenodo, dealing with all the services PSDI offers, completely with the new look of the website. I think this is the first presentation I see from Samantha Pearman-Kanza and Nicola Knight with only 4 comics and no meme, but still worth checking out 😀
The Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure (PSDI): What we can do for you! [Presentation]
Link to document in Zenodo with DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15546086
That is it for today, thanks for reading and see you next week.
Benjamin