The latest release of the Metadata4Ing (m4i) ontology facilitates the usage within RO-Crates and the modelling of physical quantities and data sets. The ontology can be used to document engineering research processes in a machine-readable way.
This year’s joint Community Meeting of Alex and Doris focused on the topic “Best Practices of RDM in Thermal and Process Engineering”.
We incorporated comments and feedback from the NFDI4ING community into this updated version to better support data management planning and make use of new features in RDMO.
We are pleased to announce the first stable 1.0 release of the open source virtual research environment Kadi4Mat. This version marks the culmination of several years of work and improvements since the initial release of Kadi4Mat and also includes the first stable version of its application programming interface.
We are once again looking for researchers in the engineering sciences to share with us their experiences and needs for handling research data.
TUstorage is a document repository containing all kinds of research literature in different file formats. The documents include journal articles, e-books and conference proceedings, mainly in XML and PDF file format. Where available, image and supplementary information files are provided along with the XML versions. Documents under open access licences can be downloaded via an API without the need to register.
The NFDI4ING Terminology Service bundles and standardises access to existing terminologies and semantic models for research data management purposes. They form the basis for clear and meaningful communication between producers and users of research data for their subsequent use in innovative research. Clear communication is a basic prerequisite for innovative research, especially in areas such as the highly complex engineering sciences.
Alex’ Knowledge Base offers a clear and practical entry point into the work of the NFDI4ING task area addressing challenges connected to one-of-a-kind, highly-variable experiments. It not only showcases the developed tools and services but also provides helpful guides and workflow recommendations. It’s a useful starting point for researchers fitting the Archetype Alex looking for support in navigating their research data management tasks.
SM4RO-C is a specification that defines how to use SciMesh graphs in RO-Crates in order to describe the raw data files stored within the crate. It enables researchers to publish and/or share their research results in the richest way possible, i.e. raw data, intermediate data, and workflow graphs combined in one ZIP file.
SciMesh provides a specification and a reference implementation for a knowledge graph schema. It is supposed to represent scientific workflows and insights. While originating in experimental research of the engineering and material sciences, its basic principle is the connection of cause and effect, which can be applied to most empiric research. Its applications range from research publication over data exchange between electronic lab notebooks to timestamping of scientific work in blockchains.
