After one week without a news digest, I am now back. So let us check out, what happened in the past two weeks.
FAIR-DI – Award for data handling in PhD thesis
FAIR-DI, the FAIR Data Infrastructure for Physics, Chemistry, Material Science and Astronomy e.V. has announced an award for “Outstanding Data Handling in a PhD Thesis”. Eligible to participate are all individuals who completed their PhD in the field of physics, material science or chemistry in 2023 or later. The winner will have the chance to present their work and receive a prize of €2000, deadline for application is July 31,2024. Find out more about the award as well as the requirements here.
MaRDI – Newsletter
The latest newsletter from MaRDI was published, and you can read it here. As always with these newsletters, there is too much content to be covered completely in this short news digest, but I would like to highlight the article I Have No Data, where they go into detail what research data in mathematics is, what the goals of MaRDI are and why basically every researcher is working with some kind of data. It is a very interesting read, and I recommend reading it.
NFDI4Chem – Publications, Updates and more
During the last two weeks, NFDI4Chem published a bunch of news articles, you can find them here. In the spirit of keeping this news digest short, I will just highlight a few: One article is a good reminder to think about your backup strategy and explains in more details the 3-2-1 Rule for backups. Another article (see here) is reporting on two recent article publications: the first one on the topic of “Where Are We Really in the Digital Transformation?” published in Nachrichten aus der Chemie, unfortunenatley there is no open access to this article, or I couldn’t find it. The second article has the topic “Road to a Chemistry-Specific Data Management Plan”, published in Data Science Journal and is freely accessible. The later one is using survey and interview data to evaluate where problems in research data management for chemists arise, and how a proper discipline-specific DMP template could improve this. The last article I would like to highlight here is on the euroSAMPL blind prediction challange, which is now finished. The goal of the challenge was to predict aqueous pKa values of small drug-like molecules.
PUNCH4NFDI – Article about the Jülich LOFAR Long-term Archive
The publication “Learning from the present for the future: The Jülich LOFAR Long-term Archive” by Manzano et al. describes how the archive is handling multiple petabytes of radio astronomy data. They take a look back at the past 10 years and discuss what they can improve and learn from the past. For me, it was a very interesting read and I recommend having a look, especially if you are interested in how such large amounts of “hot” and “cold” data can be handled and made available. You can find the article here.
Zenodo
NFDI4Chem
There are two new uploads to Zenodo by NFDI4Chem, the first one is a presentation on ontologies currently used in chemistry and the second one is a chemistry-specific DMP template based on the DFG checklist (see the news mentioned before). This template can be very useful for your next DFG proposal (if you are working in chemistry).
Current Chemical Ontologies to Identify and Describe FAIR Chemical Research Data
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11403267
Chemistry-specific Data Management Plan Template based on DFG checklist
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10948510
PSDI
Another great presentation was uploaded, this time with the focus on metadata and how to work with it.
Mirror mirror on the wall, how do I make the FAIRest metadata of them all?
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12570573
Outro
That is it for today, thanks for reading and see you next week!