Research Data Management in Action: CoRDI 2025 at RWTH
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From August 26 to 28, 2025, RWTH Aachen University will host the second Conference on Research Data Infrastructure (CoRDI). The event will bring together stakeholders from academia, infrastructure, and the community to discuss the current state and future of research data management (RDM).
The conference is organized by the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) in close cooperation with RWTH. The venue is the C.A.R.L. lecture hall center, which offers modern facilities and a central location, providing ideal conditions for a lively conference atmosphere.
Second Advanced User Meeting of Coscine.nrw
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On April 29, 2025, the second user meeting of Coscine.nrw took place. The event not only offered exciting insights into current developments in the research data management (RDM) platform, but was above all interactive. In a creative group work phase, participants jointly developed specific criteria for evaluating storage space requests—an important building block for the review process of the new DataStorage.nrw storage system.
Coscine Survey 2025 – Your Opinion for a Better RDM Platform
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We would like to invite you to participate in the Coscine Survey 2025. From April 28 to May 30, 2025, you will have the opportunity to share your experiences, wishes, and suggestions with us.
NFDI-MatWerk Spring School 2025: A Dynamic Exchange on Research Data Management in Aachen
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From April 8 to 10, 2025, RWTH Aachen University hosted the NFDI-MatWerk Spring School, bringing together 22 enthusiastic participants from all over Germany. This diverse group included PhD students, postdocs, and researchers who work with experimental and simulation data. Over three days, they immersed themselves in intensive sessions, hands-on workshops, and lively discussions about Research Data Management (RDM) in materials science and engineering.
NFDI Becomes Part of the EOSC Build-Up Phase
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The National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) has been selected from a total of 121 initiatives across Europe as one of 13 organizations that will be part of the development phase of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Federation [1]. This marks the start of the development phase.
Carpentries Python Workshop
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The Software Carpentries Introduction to Python workshop on March 17 to 18, 2025, at the IT Center of the RWTH Aachen University. It was led by Jonathan Hartman from the Rhine-Ruhr Center for Scientific Data Literacy (DKZ.2R) and Catherine Gonzalez from the NFDI4Microbiota. This event was specifically designed for graduate students and researchers who are interested in learning Python.
Meeting of the RDM Network in March 2025 – Realignment of the RDM network and Highlights of the E-Science Days
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In this report, we look back on the last Meeting of the RDM Network on March 19, 2025: Learn more about the RDM network, its vision and the future development of the RDM network meetings at RWTH Aachen University. We also share the highlights of our Data Stewards and network members that they experienced during the E-Science Days 2025 in Heidelberg.
E-Science-Days 2025: Concluding Impulses
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The third and final day of the E-Science Days 2025 kicked off with an inspiring keynote by Prof. Dr. Niklas Boers on the topic of “Data-driven modeling of the Earth system”. The participants gained a comprehensive insight into data-driven modeling approaches for researching the Earth system. The keynote was moderated by Oliver Kohl-Frey.
E-Science-Days 2025: Coscine in Focus
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After the first day of the E-Science Days 2025 offered exciting insights into various aspects of research data management, the second day focussed on practical solutions, sustainable storage strategies and agile development processes. The day began with a keynote speech by Susanna Weber and then offered a varied programme of specialist presentations and discussions on current challenges and innovative developments in RDM.
E-Science-Days 2025: Kick-Off!
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The E-Science Days 2025 took place in Heidelberg from March 12 to March 14, 2025 under the motto ‘Research Data Management: Challenges in a Changing World’. The event offered both online and face-to-face participation and served as an interdisciplinary platform for dialogue on research data management (RDM) and open science.
The diverse programme included many different formats such as lectures, lightning talks, poster sessions and workshops. The keynote speeches and the panel discussion, which highlighted current topics such as ensuring data quality, challenges in data publication and the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence (AI) in RDM, attracted particular attention.
In this blog series, we take you on a journey through three eventful days, which the RDM team at RWTH Aachen University was able to experience intensively.
