Kategorie: ‘From the practice’
Announcement: Workshop “Data Stewardship Goes Germany 2025” in Karlsruhe!
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Following the successful 2024 event at RWTH Aachen, the Research Data Management Working Group of the TU9 Alliance, in cooperation with FIZ Karlsruhe, and RDM@KIT are inviting data stewards, data managers, data curators, and other experts from the fields of research data management and research software engineering experts to this year’s workshop, “Data Stewardship goes Germany.”
RDM Network Meeting in June 2025: Coscine in Practice
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In June, a special session titled ‘Coscine in Practice‘ was held in the ‘Online topic special’ format. The event provided Coscine users, interested parties, and RDM Network Meeting participants with an excellent opportunity to share their experiences and learn from each other.
Fellowship of the Data Conference in Jena
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In April 2025, the RDM team from RWTH Aachen University traveled to Jena, Thuringia, to actively participate in the international community meeting for research data management trainers and data stewards. We have summarized our impressions and insights for you in a short report.
DKZ.2R Data Café: Your Data – Our Expertise
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On Tuesday June 24, 2025, the Data Café of the Rhine-Ruhr Center for Scientific Data Competence (DKZ.2R) will be held at the RWTH Aachen University Library. From 11am to 3 pm, researchers can discuss their research data questions with experts in Machine Learning, High-Performance Computing, and Research Data Management in a relaxed, free-of-charge atmosphere over coffee.
Networking in Action: Highlights of the RDM Network Meeting
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The first RDM Network Meeting in the new “Practical Special” format took place on May 22, 2025, in the University Library of RWTH Aachen University. The active RDM community at RWTH, comprising data stewards and other individuals involved in RDM, met in an informal setting to share insights on the latest challenges in Research Data Management, present project updates, and discuss recent developments at RWTH with the RDM team.
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.
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
Source: DKZ.2R and NFDI4Microbiota
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.
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.
