Keeping research data findable and accessible can feel like an overwhelming task, especially when multiple data formats, tools, and actors are involved. Where do you even start? It’s time for a data spring cleaning!

In this talk, we will show you simple “spring cleaning” methods for organising your data that you can test out right away. After that, we will introduce you to more advanced approaches to automate the integration of heterogeneous datasets from ELN systems and repositories like eLabFTW or PANGAEA.

This talk takes place as part of the annual Love Data Week.

“Code, Community, Company?! Sustaining Open Source Research Software Through Founding a Company”

Date: Tuesday, 21st October at 11:00 am

Nina Rosnerski and Dr. Alexander Schlemmer

Research software is built with great effort and dedication, but all too often risks fading away once projects end or key contributors transition into other roles. In this talk, we discuss one possible way to address this challenge: founding a company. We will explore under which conditions founding a company can help to ensure long-term maintenance, create reliable structures, and give research software a future beyond short-term funding cycles. At the same time, we want to reflect on tensions resulting from commercial structures, share some of the challenges we faced along the way, and invite discussion about what sustainable models for research software could look like inside and outside academia. Our perspective comes from IndiScale, where we continue to develop the open source toolkit LinkAhead. LinkAhead originated around 15 years ago in the research context under the name CaosDB. In 2019, the core developers founded IndiScale to give the project a sustainable future. Today, LinkAhead is used successfully in a wide range of interdisciplinary research contexts.

Slides from this presentation can be found in the HiRSE Zenodo Community

Datenchaos? Keine Ahnung wo die aktuellen Versionen liegen? Ihr seid nicht allein! Wir zeigen euch eine einfache Methode, mit der ihr eine klare Struktur in eure Forschungsdaten bringt – und das so, dass ihr den Unterschied direkt merkt.
Sobald die Basis steht, geht es zum nächsten Schritt: Mit der Open-Source-Software LinkAhead lässt sich euer Forschungsdatenmanagement von der Datenerfassung bis zur Veröffentlichung automatisieren. Ihr bekommt einen Einblick wir ihr Daten in LinkAhead effizient durchsuchen und Verknüpfungen der Daten miteinander nachvollziehen könnt.

Vortragende
Alexander Schlemmer

Die Veranstaltung findet online via ZOOM statt: Eine Anmeldung ist nicht nötig.

How can research data from different sources be effectively managed, linked, and reused? In this session we will give an insight into LinkAhead – a flexible open source software toolkit specifically designed to meet the needs of research data management.

LinkAhead enables the automated integration of different data from different contexts and thus serves as a link between the different steps of the research process – from data acquisition to data analysis and publication. It works hand in hand with other RDM software such as electronic lab notebooks or repositories. We will demonstrate how researchers can efficiently browse their data in LinkAhead’s web interface and trace links between data.

LinkAhead supports researchers in various research areas, grows flexibly with their needs and can therefore be used by individual researchers as well as small research groups or entire institutes.

The workshop is organized by the state initiative Research Data Management Lower Saxony, FDM-NDS. FDM-NDS is a collaborative project under the umbrella of Hochschule.digital Niedersachsen and is funded as part of zukunft.niedersachsen, a funding program by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture (MWK) and Volkswagen Foundation.

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