Welcome to the News Digest – RDM in Natural Science. Each week, I explore the latest developments in research data management, focusing specifically on natural sciences, and provide a concise overview. Let us dive right in.
NFDI4Earth
Better access to governmental data
Within the Earth System Sciences and therefore in NFDI4Earth governmental data are an important resource and in the past many of the reports about governmental data where features in this weekly News Digest. In the latest report by Astrid Ziemann and Klaus-Peter Wenz provide seven recommendations to improve the discoverability and use of these governmental data. The report is most useful for infrastructure operators and data providers.
Link to the report in Zenodo with DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23046959
From dataset-centric to workflow-centric research
Staying on the topic of governmental data, in the following white paper Astrid Ziemann and Matthias Mauder provide a first draft of a reference research workflows that incorporates data from governmental data infrastructure. Using the Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS) as an example eight recommendations are developed to shift from dataset-centric to a workflow-centric research.
Link to the white paper in Zenodo with DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23046553
Tracking support requests
If you are interested in monitoring the usage of tools as well as helpdesk tickets, then the report by Ivonne Anders et al. about the NFDI4Earth support requests could be interesting to you.
Link to the report in Zenodo with DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22898783
The FAIR Elephant
Ask The Elephant
On Thursday (October 8), it is time for the next meeting of the Ask The Elephant Community. This monthly early morning meeting (usually at 8 am), is an open discussion for all people interested in research data management questions. This Thursday we will have a look at the recently published RDM checklist by NFDi4Chem, as well as other checklists currently out there. And a small teaser: In the meeting in November we will have a look at version 6 of eLabFTW. For more information about the Ask The Elephant Community check out the link below.
Link to the Ask The Elephant community on the webpage of The FAIR Elephant
Or
Join the Ask The Elephant directly here
Outro
That is it for today. Have a great day and see you next week.
Benjamin
If you find these weekly overviews useful, please like, and share them with your colleagues and if you want to support me even more, you can go over to my ko-fi page and buy a bag of peanuts for The FAIR Elephant. Your support is much appreciated.