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Participation in the MSE Congress 2024

October 10th, 2024 | by
A stand with four people at the MSE Congress 2024

Source: Katharina M. E. Grünwald

The RDM team from RWTH Aachen University was represented at the International Congress on Materials Science and Engineering (MSE)! Well, at least partially: we were represented there by members of the Materials Science and Engineering Consortium of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI-MatWerk for short) of the IT Center of RWTH Aachen University. We have recorded our impressions of the MSE Congress in this article.

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Central RDM Services at the RWTH: GitLab

October 4th, 2024 | by
Symbolic image of Central RDM Services at the RWTH Aachen University

Source: IT Center RWTH Aachen

This article is part of our series “Central RDM Services at RWTH Aachen“. It is intended to show our researchers – i.e. you – which RDM services are offered at RWTH Aachen University to support you in your research and data management. We talk to the service managers and collect all the information for you in the individual articles. In this article, we would like to introduce the RDM service “Software Engineering Services” (SES), also known as GitLab.

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Rat für Informationsinfrastrukturen (RfII)

September 27th, 2024 | by
Logo Rat für Informationsinfrastrukturen

Source: Rat für Informationsinfrastrukturen

In this article, we would like to draw your attention to the Rat für Informationsinfrastrukturen (RfII). Based in Göttingen, the RfII has been initiating strategic processes since 2014 and is concerned with the entire scientific system as well as with questions relating to the further development of information infrastructures. The RfII regularly issues recommendations on research data management (RDM). The RfII mailing list allows you to stay up to date on the latest developments.

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That Was the Young Academics Day 2024

September 20th, 2024 | by
Marketplace with RWTH Services on the Young Academics Day 2024

Source: Own illustration

On September 5, 2024, it was that time again: the RWTH Young Academics Day (YAD) for young academics took place in the SuperC of RWTH Aachen University. PhD students and postdocs at RWTH were invited to network, exchange ideas and reflect on their own career paths and decisions through inspiring lectures, as well as to be inspired by the services offered by RWTH. The RDM team from RWTH was also there to present the services of research data management (RDM) at the “marketplace”.

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Free Places – Online Workshop Fair Data Through Publication

September 10th, 2024 | by
RDM Trainings

Source: Own illustration

Are you interested in making your research data visible and reusable? Would you like to find out how best to proceed and whether your research data is suitable for this? Then you are cordially invited to take part in the online workshop “FAIR data through publication” on September 18, 2024.

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Save the Date! TdF 2024

September 5th, 2024 | by
symbolic image save the date

Source: Freepik

Make a note of the second Tuesday in November – November 12, 2024! That’s when the Day of Research Data (TdF) will take place in NRW for the fourth time. This year’s motto is “Into the data garden: make your research bloom”. Be curious and look forward to a blooming and colorful research data garden!

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BUILD ON DATA Conference Proceedings Published

August 29th, 2024 | by

Last year, we reported on the community conference “Auf Daten bauen // Build on Data” organized by the DFG project baureka.online. The two-day conference, which took place on May 4 and 5, 2023 in Berlin, was aimed at people who deal with historical building fabric, collect digital data on built objects and are interested in effective research data management in historical building research and monument preservation. An open access publication has now been published for the conference in May 2023, which we would like to report on in this article.

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Young Academics Day 2024

August 22nd, 2024 | by
The rector gives a lecture

Source: Martin Braun

The next Young Academics Day, or YAD for short, is just around the corner: once a year, the Vice-Rector for Human Resources and Young Academics, Prof. Sabine Brück-Dürkop, and the RWTH Center for Young Academics (CYA) invite all doctoral students and postdocs at RWTH to the Young Academics Day at the SuperC. The RDM team will also be represented with a Coscine and RDM booth on September 5, 2024. Meet our team at the “Marketplace of RWTH Services” for early career researchers.

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data.ONE – Data Literacy Basic Course I

August 15th, 2024 | by
data.RWTH Logo

Source: Center for Teaching and Learning Services

The ability to collect, evaluate, manage, analyze and interpret data appropriately and critically is indispensable in the 21st century. And it is precisely this key competence of data literacy that is the focus of the data.RWTH project. Since 2021, data literacy has been taught to students of all subjects in a multi-perspective and fundamental way as part of the data.RWTH program, which consists of online courses. In the following, we are pleased to present the first course data.ONE.

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ELN at RWTH: Pilot Phase with eLabFTW

August 8th, 2024 | by
Logo of eLabFTW

Source: eLabFTW

In the ever-evolving landscape of research, documentation remains a cornerstone of scientific progress. Traditionally, researchers have relied on analog lab journals, but the shift towards digital solutions offers numerous advantages. Electronic lab notebooks (ELNs) not only enhance searchability, allowing easy retrieval of past experiments, but also ensure consistency through structured templates and metadata profiles.

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