After a one week without a News Digest, due to holidays, I am now back with a new one, covering the weeks 33 & 34. The different NFDI consortia seem to use the repository Zenodo more and more, so there a quite some new uploads here. So let us dive in and check out what’s new.

DAPHNE4NFDI

DAPHNE4NFDI is the consortium for DAta from PHoton and Neutron Experiments of the NFDI, the National Research Data Infrastructure in Germany.

Zenodo

A poster about SciCat, a metadata catalogue which is used by research infrastructures, to organize and connect data and metadata was published on Zenodo. To really understand what SciCat does, I would also recommend checking out the official documentation and maybe some videos. It looks very interesting and I need to have a closer look at it.

SciCat: A metadata catalogue for research infrastructures
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13284144

eLabFTW

eLabFTW is a free and open source electronic lab notebook developed by Deltablot.

Youtub

New features for eLabFTW that will be available in version v.5.1 are shown in a new video by the eLabFTW team. If you are working with eLabFTW it is a must to check it out, for everybody else: it is a good opportunity to see what eLabFTW is capable of. So take a look right now:

NFDI4Cat

NFDI4Cat is the consortium for sciences related to catalysis of the NFDI, the National Research Data Infrastructure in Germany.

Zenodo

Quite a lot is going on in the Zenodo-Community of NFDI4Cat. Slides on the topic of RDM with catalytic data, and how to actually make your data more fair, with showing direct examples were published, as well as a bunch of uploads (posters and presentations) regarding ontologies and vocabularies, as well as the catalytic-specific vocabulary Voc4Cat.

Data management of experimental catalytic data – CO2 hydrogenation to higher hydrocarbons as a case study
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13219028

Establishing a collaboratively developed terminology for the catalysis disciplines as basis for FAIR data
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13219022

Voc4Cat: A Vocabulary for Linked Data in Catalysis
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13219014

Voc4Cat and its continuous integration processing pipeline for the development and maintenance of catalysis-related vocabularies
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13219010

Voc4Cat and its continuous integration processing pipeline for the development and maintenance of catalysis-related vocabularies
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13219006

 

NFDI4Earth

NFDI4Earth is the Consortium Earth System Sciences of the NFDI, the National Research Data Infrastructure in Germany.

Zenodo

Which data is worth archiving? This question was discussed during a workshop in December 2023 specifically for data in bio- and geoscience. The report was now published (only in German) and I have to say, it is very interesting and a discussion we need to have, not only in bio- and geoscience but in all fields. So I recommend checking it out, and no worries. The PDF file has 53 pages, but only the first 9 are the report. The rest of the pages are slides from presentations given during the workshop.
And there was another interesting thing uploaded, the executive summary of the NFDI4Earth Academy. The NFDI4Earth Academy offers tailored trainings, networking and fosters interdisciplinary research. Reading the executive summary can be useful, but I also recommend checking out the website here.

Bericht zum NFDI4Earth-Workshop zur Entwicklung von Kriterien für die Bewertung der Archivwürdigkeit von Daten der Bio-/Geowissenschaften
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13330901

NFDI4Earth Academy – A model for a joint NFDI Academy (NFDI4Earth Deliverable D1.4.3 D1.4.4 D1.4.7)
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13320165

Outro

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