Kategorie: ‘Berichte’
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.
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.
Coscine Workshops & Community Call
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Efficient research data management is essential for researchers in order to secure their data in the long term, make it findable and prepare it for reuse. As part of Love Data Week 2025, two workshops on Coscine were held to tackle precisely these challenges. While the first workshop on February 10, provided a general introduction, the focus of the second workshop on February 14, was on metadata management.
In this article, we give you a brief review of the Coscine workshops. But that’s not all! We would like to go one step further: Coscine thrives on the community! Researchers can share their own scripts, workflows and automation solutions. We are now calling for active participation, with the chance to win!
RWTHtransparent 2025 – A Review
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The annual RWTHtransparent took place at the start of the year – an event at which RWTH Aachen University provides insights into its developments, celebrates the successes of the past year and presents an outlook on future projects. This year, the event was organised as an entertaining stage show that put research, teaching and university administration centre stage in an innovative way. Following the stage programme, participants were able to explore the exhibitions of current projects at RWTH and experience the diversity of the university.
Review of the First Meeting of the RDM Network in 2025
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In this article, we would like to reflect on our first Meeting of the RDM Network in the new year at RWTH Aachen University. It took place on January 15, 2025 and was entitled “Further development of the RDM network and an update of the central RDM services”.
Data Stewards at RWTH Aachen – Interview With Kseniia Dukkart
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Today, we would like to follow up on the series “What does a data steward actually do?” with a new interview under the title “Data Stewards at RWTH Aachen – Interview With […]”. You can find the previous interviews on the RDM blog.
The concept of data stewards is still abstract for many people. Therefore, it is best to show their specific work so that you, as readers of the RDM blog, can get a better idea of what they do. Dr. Kseniia Dukkart is available for today’s interview. We hope you enjoy reading it.
