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DPG Spring Meeting 2023
A fun and productive week for the FAIRmat team
The FAIRmat team participated in a variety of ways at the DPG-Frühjahrstagung 2023 (DPG Spring Meeting) of the Condensed Matter Section (SKM) in Dresden and had a great time talking to the condensed-matter community about FAIR data management!
FAIRmat organized the special plenary talk discussion “NFDI and FAIR research data: benefit or burden?” with the panel members comprising Michael Mößle (DFG), Claudia Draxl (FAIRmat, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Ralph Claessen (Universität Würzburg) and Frank Schreiber (DAPHNE4NFDI, Universität Tübingen). Michael Mößle (DFG) started the discussion by stressing the need to better use scientific data and outcomes of DFG funded projects, and the fact that developing the standards and best practices for FAIR data management should be driven by the community for each discipline, due to different requirements of each field. The topics discussed included the implications of FAIR data management on the community, the need to provide a protective space for scientists to work with their data, and standards to control electronic lab note books (ELNs) usage and training.
The discussion was then open to the audience, which was lively, and we saw that our community are interested in FAIR data issues and are thinking about how to overcome the hurdles associated with FAIR research data management.
In the focus session Making Experimental Data F.A.I.R. – New Concepts for Research Data Management a variety of speakers including several members of our team spoke about their experiences implementing FAIR research data management practices such as exper
imental data and meta data generation workflows, meta data schemas and file formats, electronic lab notebooks, novel tools for handling and analyzing scientific research data
Finally, our team were at the FAIRmat and DAPHNE4NFDI booth to meet the community, inform people about FAIR data management, and chat with them about our work. Whether people were learning about FAIR data for the first time or coming to us as seasoned experts, the conversations were engaging and we had a great time meeting everyone!
If you missed the chance to see our talks or meet us at the booth, you can
- Check out past talks about our work on YouTube.
- Read our brochure on data management plans here on our website.
- Reach out to us any time at fairmat@physik.hu-berlin.de.