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A Vision for Data Management Plans in the NFDI

A new publication discusses possible future roles of Data Management Plans (DMPs), templates, and tools in the upcoming NFDI service architecture. This position paper summarises ideas developed and collected during interdisciplinary workshops of the Data Management Planning Working Group (infra-dmp), which is part of the section Common Infrastructures of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) in Germany.

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The NFDI4Ing Metadata Profile Service

The NFDI4Ing Metadata Profile Service is a platform that facilitates creation, curation and sharing of metadata profiles. The profiles are based on the W3C recommendation SHACL and can be created in a graphical user interface by selecting suitable terms from existing ontologies.

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How does BETTY develop software?

Ideally, researchers can incorporate existing, established and tested research software into their own work. BETTY tries to help researchers in finding existing software suitable for their needs, developing new software, and publishing software artifacts in a sustainable and reproducible way.

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Community-based RDM training portfolio for the engineering sciences

Providing Research Data Management (RDM) support and education is a central goal of NFDI4Ing. That is why we are developing a learning platform for RDM with a special focus on engineering sciences. The challenge is to design it subject-specific and attractive for motivated, self-paced learning. To meet this requirement, we need your input!

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Review: Results of the NFDI4Ing Community Meeting on RDM for engineering projects

The most recent NFDI4Ing Community Meeting 2023 took place online on 27 October. Talks and presentations were focused on giving an introduction to research data management and data management plans. The meeting was rounded off with interactive workshop sessions in which current research projects served as case studies. The workshops laid the foundation for NFDI4Ing to initiate application-related harmonisation and standardisation efforts.

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NFDI4Ing Storage & Repositories

In our base service “Repositories and Storage” (S-4) we have reached a couple of milestones during the last year, with many new developments in the storage and repositories domains.

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Base Service “Research software development”: advice and services for good software

The base service “research software development” provides infrastructure, best practices and templates to make research software and its development more replicable and reproducible while improving the quality of the written code. Currently, our main projects are a JupyterHub server for the NFDI4Ing-community, a knowledge base with best practices and examples for sustainable code development, and training courses for, e.g., GitLab.

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Quality Assurance within NFDI4Ing

The base service “Quality assurance in RDM processes and metrics for FAIR data” in NFDI4Ing includes the support of data management plans with RDMO, the development of maturity models for research data management processes and the provision and maintenance of FAIR data metrics. The common goal is to ensure the quality of research data management in engineering research through each individual service.

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Is your RDM (too) complex? Let Jarves help you!

By ordering the RDM activities based on their occurrence in the engineering research process, Jarves provides a structure for RDM in engineering. Based on the research’s boundaries, Jarves offers information on the next steps and available tools.

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Findings of the NFDI4Ing Community Survey 2022

NFDI4Ing conducted its second community survey on the topic of research data management (RDM) in the engineering sciences. The findings will help tailor the consortium’s services precisely to the needs of engineers. Counting on your support, the third survey has just started.
Image: “Research Data Diversity” by Heinz-Vale, CC BY-SA 4.0

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Who is Doris?

The NFDI4Ing task area Doris designs transferable research data management concepts and tools for data from high-performance measurement and computation (HPMC).

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Betty’s (Re)Search Engine

Betty is the NFDI4Ing task area covering the research data management challenges faced by engineers who develop their own software solutions. Betty envisions a future

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NFDI4Ing Conference 2023

Save the Date: 27. & 28.09.2023