📣 Call for Contributions: SciCoCo.nrw 2026 is open!

Join us Sept 21–23 at @rwthaachenuniversity for a hands-on conference by HPC.nrw, with e.g. @fdm_nrw , on HPC, AI/ML, RSE, Research Data Management, reproducibility & Data Literacy.

Deadline: June 15, 2026
Submit: https://events.hifis.net/event/3911/abstracts/

#SciCoCoNRW #HPC #fdmNRW #RSE

Your dataset deserves a DOI — just like your paper.

A persistent identifier makes your data citable, discoverable, and linked to your publication (important aspects of the #FAIR principles). Repositories like Zenodo, or your institutional repo (should) assign DOIs automatically.

No DOI = your data might as well not exist.

👉 https://forschungsdaten.info/themen/veroeffentlichen-und-archivieren/persistente-identifikatoren/

#DOI #PersistentIdentifier #OpenData #ResearchData
— bos

Working with personal data in your research? You need to think about GDPR.

Informed consent, anonymization, data minimization — these aren't bureaucratic hurdles. They protect your participants and your research.

Plan for data protection from the start, not as an afterthought.
A Datamanagement Plan (#DMP) can assist you.

👉 https://forschungsdaten.info/themen/rechte-und-pflichten/datenschutzrecht/

#GDPR #DataProtection #ResearchEthics #RDM #DSGVO
— bos

Good data organization isn't glamorous — but it's what makes research reproducible.

This peer-reviewed paper from the Data Science Journal provides a complete folder structure template for research projects, plus guidance READMEs and metadata templates in Markdown.
They also talk about #johnnydecimal – an approach we also like.

Built by data stewards, for researchers. CC-BY licensed.

👉 https://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2025-035

#RDM #FolderStructure #Reproducibility #OpenScience
— bos

Are you commit messages all over the place? Do you dislike writing changelogs? Still deciding what semantic version your next release should be? Commitizen is a very handy tool that can assist and automate aspects of your release process.

https://commitizen-tools.github.io/commitizen/

- `cz commit`: add a new commit to your repo
- `cz bump`: intelligently increase your version number
- `cz changelog`: automatically generate a `changelog.md` file

#git #tools #code #trackcheck #RDM
— JH

🔎 **Archaeoanalysis Hackathon: Turn metadata into data!**
Hackathon in cooperation with @dai_weltweit @WiNoDa @nfdi4objects
🗓 30 Jun – 3 Jul 2026, IT‑Center, RWTH Aachen
💾 1.5 M records, one dataset – bring your own laptop
🥗 Catering provided, **free participation**!
📊 Judging: data‑quality, reproducibility, novelty, reuse, communication
🔗 more info & registration: https://www.dkz2r.de/events/2026-06-30_archaeoanalysis_hackathon/

#RWTH #Hackathon #Archaeoanalysis #DataScience #Metadata #FreeEvent