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News Digest – RDM in Natural Science: Week 46

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Welcome back to the latest News Digest. No time to waste, so let us directly dive in:

FAIRmat

FAIRmat is the FAIR Data Infrastructure for Condensed-Matter Physics and the Chemical Physics of Solids, a consortium of the NFDI, the National Research Data Infrastructure in Germany.

Zenodo

New versions of the Python  package Pynxtools as well as the NOMAD Plugin for material measurement data are out.

Pynxtools: A Python Library for NeXus-Compliant Experimental Data Conversion and Integration with NOMAD Platform
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14162634

NOMAD Measurements Plugin
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14161270

NFDI4Chem

NFDI4Chem is the Chemistry consortium for the NFDI, the National Research Data Infrastructure in Germany.

Stammtisch Recording Published: BAM Data Store

The recording of the NFDI4Chem Stammtisch from February was published on YouTube. The title of the talk was “From Pilot to Rollout: Introducing the BAM Data Store for Institutional RDM in Materials Science”. It shows how the BAM (Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung) in Germany establishes a new data management in their institutions with a central data storage, the BAM Data Store. The software the BAM uses is called openBIS, and you will learn more about it in the recording. Independent of the software used, it shows quite nicely how the implementation of a new research data management workflow can be done. I highly recommend watching at least from minute 16 (see video below). As is said in the talk: “it is a marathon, not a sprint”.

PSDI

PSDI is the Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure in the UK.

Zenodo

Not sure what the PSDI is? Check out the latest slides published on Zenodo and get to know the PSDI, their principles, and their support/services.

SES South Presentation – An Overview of PSDI
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14098732

The FAIR Elephant

I had the pleasure of giving a short interview with the Life Science Factory in Göttingen about the essentials of research data management for life science start-ups. You can find the full interview here. Let me know what you think in the comments. Thank you to the Life Science Factory for the opportunity to give a talk during their deep-dive session as well as this interview.

In case you are reading this today (15/11/2024), you can catch me live on YouTube in one of my coworking sessions. I started streaming coworking sessions during the last steps of writing my PhD thesis, it helps me to stay focused, and also I am using the pomodoro technique. So if you need to really get something done, feel free to join me. I will try to do these kinds of coworking streams more regularly on Thursdays and Fridays (if possible).

So that is it for today. Thanks for reading and see you next week, or in the YouTube live stream 😉

 

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