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Data Stewards at RWTH Aachen – Interview With Kseniia Dukkart

January 9th, 2025 | by
Picture of Dr. Kseniia Dukkart – Data Steward as a Profession

Source: Own illustration

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.

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The RDM Annual Review 2024

January 2nd, 2025 | by
2025 Happy New Year

Source: Freepik

2024 was another exciting year for research data management (RDM). At RWTH Aachen University and beyond, numerous events, new initiatives and exciting developments have further advanced RDM. It was a year full of innovations, challenges and inspiring encounters. Let’s take a look at the highlights of the past year!

 

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CRC/TRR219 met and cares about RDM

December 19th, 2024 | by
Two people are standing in front of a flipchart at the annual conference of the Transregio 219 collaborative research center.

Source: IMCAR, UK Aachen

From March 11 to 13, 2024, the Collaborative Research Center Transregio 219 Mechanisms of Cardiovascular Complications in Chronic Kidney Disease” (CRC/TRR219) held its annual meeting in Seeheim-Jugenheim, Hessia. This gathering brought together researchers to discuss progress, challenges, and future directions and to continue to raise awareness of the management of research data (RDM).

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Reflections on the Open Science Festival 2024 in Mainz

December 3rd, 2024 | by
Collage of images; two data stewards from RWTH Aachen University stand in front of an Open Science Festival roll-up banner

Source: Own illustration

Three data stewards from the technical training and consulting group N. Parks, K. Dukkart and C. Gonzalez of the Research Process and Data Management (RPDM) Department recently had the opportunity to attend the third annual Open Science Festival held at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, an event dedicated to exploring the principles and practices of Open Science.

As in the previous year, the festival brought together a diverse group of participants—from students and researchers to decision-makers and Research Data Management (RDM) professionals under the inspiring motto: “Meet, Share, Inspire, Care”.

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Report of the NFDI-MatWerk Summer School 2024

November 26th, 2024 | by
Group Picture of the NNFDI-MatWerk Summer School

Source: Norbert Riefler of IWT in Bremen

This year’s NFDI-MatWerk Summer School took place from September 10 to 12, 2024 at the Leibniz-Institut für Werkstofforientierte Technologien (IWT) in Bremen. The offer was met with great interest. Katharina Grünwald from the RDM team at RWTH Aachen University also attended the Summer School. We have summarised our impressions in this report.

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Review of Research Data Day 2024

November 21st, 2024 | by
Participants of the 2024 Research Data Day Jülich-Aachen

Source: Forschungszentrum Jülich

“Into the data garden: Let your research bloom!” was the motto of last week’s nationwide Research Data Day (RDD) in North Rhine-Westphalia. This year’s RDD took place on November 12, 2024 and offered researchers and those interested in RDM an attractive range of information on the topic of Research Data Management (RDM). The aim of the event is to present current developments and services in the field of RDM, to increase the visibility of the topic and to strengthen networking within the community.

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Report From the NFDI-MatWerk Workshop at RWTH Aachen

November 14th, 2024 | by
Logo of the NFDI-MatWerk

Source: NFDI-MatWerk

Better late than never: today we give you an insight into the work of the NFDI consortium MatWerk (Materials Science and Engineering). In July, it was the turn of the consortium’s colleagues at RWTH Aachen University to host the Materials Data Infrastructure (MDI) working group meeting. The three-day event took place from 16 to 18 July in the IT Centre on Kopernikusstraße. Numerous guests from the Task Area travelled from near and far to Aachen for the event.

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This Was the Data Stewardship Goes Germany Workshop 2024

November 5th, 2024 | by

Source: Unibib RWTH

This year’s TU9 workshop for data stewards took place from September 11 to 12, 2024 at RWTH Aachen University. The two-day workshop provided an opportunity to exchange ideas on research data management in science and technology, with a particular focus on the role of data stewards. In this article we look back on two successful and instructive days.

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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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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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