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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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Workshop: Large Language Models and the Future of Scientific Publishing – Register Now!

December 12th, 2024 | by
Female speaker giving a presentation at a workshop

Source: Freepik

Digitalization and the increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) are increasingly changing the world of scientific publishing. Large Language Models (LLMs), which open up new perspectives and possibilities for scientific communication, are a central topic in this change. How these technologies can shape the future of scientific publishing will be intensively discussed in the upcoming workshop on February 11, 2025 in Frankfurt am Main.

 

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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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Bring 2025 On! NFDI-MatWerk Spring School in Aachen

November 28th, 2024 | by
symbolic image for the NFDI-MatWerk Spring School 2025 which takaes place from April 8 to 10, 2025

Source: NFDI-MatWerk

The NFDI-MatWerk consortium for materials science and engineering of the National Research Data Infrastructure – NFDI-MatWerk – is organizing a Spring School at the IT Center of RWTH Aachen from April 8 to 10, 2025. The event is being held in cooperation with renowned partners in the field of digitization, including the DKZ.2R, the Forschungszentrum Jülich and the RWTH Institutes of Metal Forming and of Physical Metallurgy and Metal Physics.

Are you interested in digitization solutions for your materials science research? Then read on. This article will tell you everything you need to know about the Spring School and how to register.

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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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New RDM Guideline at RWTH Aachen University

October 17th, 2024 | by
Hands are on the pad; one hand is holding a pen and writing “RDM at RWTH”

Source: Own illustration

At its meeting on June 18, 2024, the rectorate of RWTH Aachen approved the new version of the RDM guideline on the recommendation of the RDM advisory board. In this article, we discuss the background and the most important innovations of the new guideline.

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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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