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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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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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