News Digest – RDM in Natural Science: Week 24, 2025
New Zenodo uploads
Two presentations on the use of ontologies to improve experimental documentation. Both were part of the DAPHNE4NFDI TA1 Data for science lecture series in April 2025.
Leveraging Ontologies and Reasoning for FAIR Data in ESRF Experiments [Presentation]
Link to presentation on Zenodo with DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15609374
NeXus Ontology and its Use for FAIR Experimental Data [Presentation]
Link to presentation on Zenodo with DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15609244
Recording of Community Meeting available
The recording of the latest community meeting of eLabFTW is now available on YouTube. During the meeting, two main topics were discussed. The first one is the integration of Open Closing. Developer Manuel Lera-Ramirez gives more insides about the software and how to use it inside eLabFTW:
In the other part of the meeting, some of the most resent changes were shown and discussed. You can also check the blog entry, for more information about the latest developments.
Link to the Deltablot blog entry about the community meeting
Link to the Deltablot blog entry about the latest release of eLabFTW
Report: Chemistry Data Days 2025
At the beginning of June, the Chemistry Data Days of NFDI4Chem took place in Mainz. Now a short report on the event is available on the webpage of NFDI4Chem. Two main topics were discussed during the meeting: teaching RDM in curricular and tools for the data life cycle. To learn more about the meeting, check out the report.
Two new recordings available
Two very interesting talks were uploaded to the YouTube channel of PSDI last week. The first one is on greener computing and should you just watch one video this week, I would highly recommend taking this one. There is a lot of interesting and thought-provoking information here.
The second video is on usability and if you are responsible for a website design or are developing a tool, you should keep the things mentioned in this video in mind. Also well worth watching.
New Zenodo upload
PSDI published a report on how to handle physical chemistry property data, developed standards and methods to collect, store and reuse different types of spectroscopic data. Check out the report on Zenodo.
Physical Chemistry Properties Data Collection [Report]
Link to report on Zenodo with DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15656342
Workshops with DECHEMA
Do you want to boost your research data management? You want to learn how to start implementing new workflows to organize your data and work from the beginning and future-proof your research? Make sure you do not miss my three workshops with DECHEMA in September and October. The first workshop will cover all the basics and give clear starting points for to improve your data handling. Followed up with a workshop on publishing research data and the funder requirements. The last workshops will then go into more details on how to establish an electronic lab notebook. Follow the links below for more information. All tthree workshops will be in German.
Link to the workshop: Elektronische Laborbücher: Auswahl, Einführung und Praxis
That was it for today. Thank you for reading and sharing this news digest. See you next week.
Benjamin