Schlagwort: ‘coscine.nrw’
Third Advanced User Meeting of Coscine.nrw
Research data management faces the challenge of designing effective and user-friendly processes that meet the needs of different disciplines. How can the requirements in Coscine for storage space requests in the Coscine JARDS review process be optimized to ensure both quality and efficiency? This is precisely where the third user meeting of Coscine.nrw comes in. In this follow-up report, we summarize the most important topics and results of the meeting and provide insights into the discussions, group work, and future steps to improve the range of services.
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.
The RDM Annual Review 2024
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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!
Automating (Meta)Data Transfer to Coscine
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If you attended our courses on the research data management platform Coscine and Metadata, you know we need to securely store our data and annotate them with meaningful metadata and that Coscine can help you here. You probably also know doing that by hand can be tedious. Let’s automate it!
In this course, we will use a Jupyter Notebook to create Python script for automated data transfer in a step-by-step process. We will interact with the Coscine projects and resources using the Coscine Python SDK. In the end, you will have the foundations to create your own scripts to automate your data workflows, enabling you to transfer data and metadata from a local computer or server to Coscine.
This event is part of a series of in-depth modules on research data management (RDM II – modular). The basics on research data management are covered by the Moodle course “Überblick zum Management von Forschungsdaten (FDM I-online)” / “Research Data Management – an Overview (RDM I – online)“. Please use this course as introduction to Research Data Management.
Registration for Doctoral Candidates: https://www.rwth-aachen.de/go/id/mkbr/file/5-64895/?lidx=1
Registration for Postdocs and Academic Staff: https://www.rwth-aachen.de/go/id/mkbr/file/5-64893/?lidx=1
RDM platform Coscine – more than free quota!
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Contemporary research involves conscious research data management (RDM) with the aim of generating high-quality research data and keeping it sustainably (re)usable, i.e. findable, accessible and understandable (FAIR-criteria). The RDM platform Coscine – Collaborative Scientific Integration Environment—supports you in this and helps you meet the requirements of research funders and comply with Good Research Practice.
This event is part of a series of in-depth modules on RDM (FDM II – modular). The basics on RDM are covered by the Moodle course “Research Data Management – an Overview (RDM I – online)”. Please use this course as introduction to RDM.
Learn about the RDM platform Coscine with all its features. Understand how Coscine supports you in making research data FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) and in meeting the expectations of research funders.
Metadata Basics and Creating Application Profiles for Coscine
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Meaningful and machine-readable metadata are a prerequisite for high-quality and sustainable research data that can be used effectively in line with FAIR principles. Without metadata, research data are worthless. Therefore, meaningful and machine-readable metadata are a prerequisite for high-quality and sustainable research data that can be used effectively. Furthermore, they are a core element of FAIR data (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable).
The research data management platform Coscine allows you to annotate research data with metadata that is suitable for your research. Coscine already provides you with basic application profiles for this purpose. In this workshop, you will learn how to extend these profiles or create your own ones with the help of the Metadata Profile Generator in Coscine.
This event is part of a series of in-depth modules on research data management (FDM II – modular). The basics on research data management are covered by the Moodle course “Überblick zum Management von Forschungsdaten (FDM-I-online)” / “Research Data Management – an Overview (RDM I – online)“. Please use this course as introduction to research data management.
Registration for PhD students: https://www.rwth-aachen.de/go/id/mkbr/file/5-64891/?lidx=1
Registration for postdocs: https://www.rwth-aachen.de/go/id/mkbr/file/5-64893/?lidx=1
Effective Data Sharing With Coscine – Part 3
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In the second part of the blog series “Effective Data Sharing With Coscine“, we used the Coscine API to create a list of download links to research data in a resource. This list was converted into a structured markup format for better presentation and you learned about various options for displaying certain file types. In the third part, you will now learn how to build on this and create a web page to present your data. We will use the free services of GitHub or optionally GitLab to create and host a static website.
First Advanced User Group Meeting of Coscine.nrw
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On April 22, 2024, it was time. The first Coscine.nrw advanced user meeting took place and the Coscine.nrw advisory board was appointed. In this follow-up report, we have summarized for you what the contents of the meeting were, who the users of Coscine.nrw are and what goals are being pursued in this project.
RDM Highlights 2023
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Looking forward to the new year, we look back on an exciting 2023. What topics have fascinated and inspired the RDM community? The year was characterized by numerous interesting developments, and the importance of FDM continues to grow.
The year 2023 marks another milestone on the road to more effective and sustainable data management. We look forward to the coming year with excitement and hope for an equally exciting, informative and groundbreaking time in research data management.
In this blog post, you can find out which changes and events have raised awareness of RDM and generated excitement.
Coscine.nrw – A Milestone for Collaboration in Academia
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Progressive development in the research sector requires not only change, but also efficient cooperation between universities. In this striving for innovation and transparency, the pioneering project Coscine.nrw has taken on a crucial role for the 42 educational institutions in the DH.nrw network. In this blog post, you can find out what this project is all about and how the collaboration is supposed to work.
