The news overview today contains updates from NFDI4Cat as well as NFDI4Chem. From now on, I will also include new uploads to the repository Zenodo. Many of the NFDI consortia use Zenodo to upload reports, posters, presentations and more. Nearly all the natural science consortia of NFDI are using Zenodo communities, only for MaRDI I need to rely on keyword search for now. Datasets are, in general, excluded from this overview, at least for now, only in specific cases I will include them. If you also would be interested in an overview of newly published datasets, also in other repositories, please let me know in the comments. And now let’s take a look at the last week.
NFDI4Cat – Ontologies4Cat
Last week we already got the news about Voc4Cat, so this week NFDI4Cat is reporting about Ontologies4Cat. In the shown publication, the ontology landscape is investigated in respect to the field of catalysis. It is definitely an interesting read, and it shows that there is definitely a lack of ontologies for the domain of catalysis. The way they investigated different ontologies is reusable and should therefore be also useful to other knowledge domains. Check it out here.
NFDI4Chem – New NMR Minimum Information Standard
NFDI4Chem provides a first draft for a recommended standard for reporting liquid-state NMR experiments of small molecules. With collecting metadata for any experiment, there is always the question of which metadata needs to be collected. With the Minimum Information about Chemical Investigations (MIChi), NFDI4Chem tries to provide a guide to these questions. This new draft goes beyond the minimum information and also shows recommended metadata. If you are working with NMR and small molecules, you should definitely check this out and provide feedback to the developers. You can find more information about it here.
NFDI4Earth – Zenodo uploads:
Trend Scouting (NFDI4Earth Deliverable D1.2.1 and D1.2.2)
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10669825
A document dealing with “trends in digitization in the geosciences, including but not limited to automatic metadata extraction and annotation, semantic mapping and harmonization, machine learning, data fusion, visualization and interaction”. The document itself, or the overview, seems to be from March 2023, but it is intended as a living document with yearly updates, so I am guessing a new version will be added soon. Definitely a good way to stay up-to-date with new developments in this domain.
That is it for this week. I hope you find it helpful, that Zenodo is now also considered. I also work on including other sources, in case you have any suggestion on what you would like to see in this overview, please let me know in the comments.
Until next time, and thank you for reading.