🎮 Play your way into research data management (RDM)!

Our new newsletter features the “MaRDI Station”, an interactive video game about data and the FAIR principles. Explore, play, and discover how data management can be engaging, creative, and collaborative.

👉 Read more here: https://www.mardi4nfdi.de/community/newsletter

#OpenScience #ResearchData #ResearchDataManagement #MathData #mathRD #mardi

For my English-speaking friends:
The preprint of my article here covers the founding history and backgrounds of the #DataRescue collective @SafeguardingResearch and its #OpenSource platform #SciOp + includes an IT librarians take on this project: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19218030

This is #Fediverse history not to be forgotten, that's why it is also uploaded to SciOp itself, so feel free to seed: https://sciop.net/datasets/safeguarding-research-and-culture-sciop-article-2026-german-preprint
Thanks to @jonny for helping me out on this one :))

This paper is submitted to be published with the special issue "Out of Order: Queer, Critical and Inclusive Perspectives on Order and Disruption" of the German library journal "Bibliothek Forschung und Praxis" later this year. CfP by @fuzzyleapfrog et al. is still open until mid June if you want to contribute as well: https://doi.org/10.1515/bfp-2025-0060

If any German-speaking person has the time to translate my article, go for it, it's under CC-BY-SA-NC.

Happy #WorldBackupDay everyone :)

#SafeguardingResearch #DEI #ResearchData #FAIRdata #RDM #ResearchDataManagement #DigiPres #DigitalPreservation #OpenScience #Science #OpenAccess #GLAM #Libraries #DigitalHumanities #CulturalHeritage #AcademicChatter #Research #UnplugBigTech #UnplugTrump #LIS #InformationScience #LibraryScience
Safeguarding Research & Culture und SciOp: Datenrettung in Zeiten digitaler BĂĽcherverbrennungen

Anfang 2025 sah sich die Scientific Community in den USA einer bisher in diesem Umfang nie dagewesenen politisch motivierten Datensäuberung durch die dort neu gewählte Regierung ausgesetzt. In einem Teil des alternativen sozialen Netzwerks Fediverse organisierte sich zu dieser Zeit eine Gruppe engagierter Freiwilliger, um letztendlich ein Guerillakollektiv zur Datenrettung zu bilden, das heute unter den Namen Safeguarding Research & Culture (SRC) bekannt ist. Aus dem SRC-Kollektiv heraus entstand wenig später auch die Open-Source-Software und Plattform SciOp. Diese ermöglicht mittels einer Integration von Datenkatalog und BitTorrent-Tracker eine dezentral verteilte und koordinierte Datenhaltung, an der jede Person mit der Bereitstellung von eigenem Speicherplatz und Bandbreite teilnehmen kann, um eine bessere Verfügbarkeit und zensurresistente Bereitstellung der geretteten Daten zu gewährleisten. Dieser Beitrag zeichnet die Entstehungsgeschichte des Projekts nach und stellt dessen Besonderheiten im Vergleich zu konventionellen Ansätzen und Softwarelösungen im Bibliotheksbereich heraus. Es kann aufgezeigt werden, dass im begrenzten Umfang bekannte bibliothekarische Praktiken adaptiert wurden. Im Gegensatz zu traditionellen Bibliotheken bestehen jedoch neben dem besonderen technologischen Fundament des Projekts auch deutliche Unterschiede hinsichtlich dem Sammelschwerpunkt, der Organisationspraxis und den Partizipationsmöglichkeiten.

Zenodo

🚀 RDMO 2.4.4 ist da!

Wie beim Community-Treffen angekĂĽndigt, gibt es eine neue Version. Hintergrund ist ein breaking change in einer verwendeten Bibliothek.

👉 Gute Nachricht: Am Code selbst hat sich kaum etwas geändert – das Update sollte also problemlos sein.

đź”— Release Notes:
https://github.com/rdmorganiser/rdmo/releases/tag/2.4.4

Feedback wie immer willkommen 🙂

#RDMO #ResearchDataManagement #OpenSource #Forschungsdaten #OpenScience #FDM

Research data is only as valuable as its accessibility. The FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) aren't just buzzwords — they're the foundation of reproducible science.

Not sure where to start? We offer free consulting to help you make your data FAIR from day one.

👉 https://dkz2r.de/activities_offers/consulting/

#ResearchDataManagement #FAIRData #OpenScience #DataLiteracy
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Big news from @fairsharing! 🎉 We've just completed a major curation effort — our Object Type field is now fully populated across our entire registry.

👉 https://blog.fairsharing.org/?p=1126

Knowing what kind of digital object a resource handles — whether that's datasets, images, software, models, or something else — is fundamental to finding the right tools and staying compliant with funder and institutional policies.

So what does the data tell us? 📊

🗂️ Datasets dominate, with 3,811 assignments — over 50% of the total

🖼️ Images (1,082) and Models (415) are the largest non-document outputs

đź“„ Software Source Code policies outnumber Software Application policies 2:1, perhaps a sign that reproducibility and open code increasingly important?

đź“‹ Data Management Plans are heavily represented in policies, which makes sense!

You can now explore object types via faceted search and advanced search on the FAIRsharing website. And for developers and tool builders, the field is fully accessible via the FAIRsharing API.

Huge thanks to our maintainers, Community Champions, and the FAIRsharing team — especially David Tomkins, Lea Girard, Ramon Granell, and Allyson Lister. 🙌

#FAIRsharing #OpenScience #FAIR #ResearchDataManagement

We've just added native RAiD support to RSpace's PID portfolio, so researchers can report data deposits to a RAiD record automatically, as part of their usual repository export workflow.

Learn more in our blog post and walkthrough video:
https://www.researchspace.com/blog/raid-in-rspace-reporting-research-activities-automatically

#PIDs #ResearchDataManagement #FAIR

The abstract submission for #nfdi4LSIB2026 is now open! 🗓️ Deadline: May 15, 2026.

We are calling on the architects of the life science data ecosystem—developers, data stewards, and RDM experts—to share their work at Leibniz IPK in Gatersleben this September (2-4).

Outstanding technical papers will be invited for free open-access publication in the Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics.

Submit your work: https://meetings.ipk-gatersleben.de/nfdi4LS-IB2026/
#OpenScience #ResearchDataManagement #Bioinformatics #FAIRdata

The FDM-Werkstatt is back! Join us March 23–25 at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf for three days of hands-on workshops around research data management.

Topics include metadata, #Python, and #Emacs for reproducible workflows. Community-driven, practical, and free.

👉 https://dkz2r.de/events/2026-03-23_fdm_werkstatt/

#FDMWerkstatt #ResearchDataManagement #OpenScience #Workshop