The first step in the data life cycle involves planning. A data management plan (DMP) is a document that facilitates this. As formal documents, DMPs favor local organizations and guarantee FAIRness and policy compliance.
Template for the NFDI4Biodiversity & GfÖ Winter SchoolThis publication showcases the NFDI4Biodiversity & GfÖ Winter School 2022, a transformative one-week course program designed to equip young scientists with essential Research Data Management (RDM) skills tailored for biodiversity and environmental data. Organized by the NFDI4Biodiversity consortium, the Winter School fostered data literacy and promoted sustainable research practices within the ecological and environmental science communities.
The publication offers an overview of the Winter School's structure, curriculum, and highlights. Throughout the course, participants engaged in a series of expert-led lectures and hands-on practical sessions, delivered by renowned academics, data specialists, and research institutions in the biodiversity domain. These sessions covered critical aspects of RDM, encompassing data collection, curation, analysis, visualization, and long-term preservation.
The curriculum extensively explored state-of-the-art software tools for data handling, including Jupyter notebook, R, Python, RightField, and OpenRefine. By providing hands-on training with these tools, the Winter School empowered participants to enhance their data management workflows and produce robust research outcomes.
Targeting PhD students and Early-Career Researchers, the Winter School nurtured the next generation of scientists, equipping them with the necessary skills to navigate the challenges posed by increasingly complex and diverse ecological datasets.
By sharing insights, lessons learned, and practical guidance, this publication serves as an invaluable reference and guide for organizers, educators, and researchers seeking to create impactful and inclusive training programs in research data management for biodiversity and related studies.
The Winter School's legacy lies not only in the skills acquired by participants but also in the collaboration across the biodiversity and environmental science community. It exemplifies the commitment of NFDI4Biodiversity to advance data-driven research and contribute to a more sustainable and biodiverse planet
Workshop zu Forschungsdatenmanagement für die BMBF-Forschungsinitiative zum Erhalt der Artenvielfalt (FEdA)Researchers face the challenge of carrying out their work responsibly and transparently. If social science data is collected or processed for subsequent use, special precautions must be taken, e.g. to protect personal references in data and to embed data in its context of origin, to document it and thus make it comprehensible and interpretable.
In the workshop, we will provide an overview of the special features associated with the management and data sharing of social science data. We will focus in particular on data protection, the contextualisation/documentation of data sets and the secure storage and publication of data.
The workshop was offered by KonsortSWD (https://www.konsortswd.de/) for NFDI4Biodiversity (https://www.nfdi4biodiversity.org/de/) and the BMBF Research Initiative on Biodiversity Conservation (https://www.feda.bio/de/) and consists of presentations and exercises. In addition
participants were also given further information.
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Drill and Practice, Lecture, Lesson Plan, Worksheet
NFDI4Biodiversity Self-Study Unit - Research Data Management for Biodiversity DataThe NFDI4Biodiversity Self-Study Unit (SSU) provides in-depth knowledge for both students and researchers specializing in biodiversity and environmental sciences. This learning is based on the online learning unit "Forschungsdatenmanagement - eine Online-Einführung (HeFDI Data Learning Materials)" of the Hessian Research Data Infrastructures. Developed in collaboration between several partners within NFDI4Biodiversity, the SSU offers essential domain-specific knowledge in research data management.
Winter School Lectures - SlidesThe Winter School aimed on Early-Career-Researcher (ECR´s) with a background in biodiversity and environmental science and took place in December 2022. It was a collaborative event between the Ecological Society (GfÖ) and the consortium NFDI4Biodiversity within the National Research Data Infrastructure Germany (NFDI). Various experts from the partner network (universities, data centers and research institutions) shared their widespread knowledge and trained participants in the fundamentals of Research Data Management (RDM) as well as cutting-edge technologies in handling environmental and biodiversity data across the Data Life Cycle (DLC). This is a collection of presentations from this Winter School 2022.
Data Management and Data LiteracyLearn more about the basics of Research Data Management and Data Literacy (e.g. research data types, FAIR principles, Data Management Plan) and what Funding Guidelines have to do with that.
Winter School LecturesThe Winter School aimed on Early-Career-Researcher (ECR´s) with a background in biodiversity and environmental science and took place in December 2022. It was a collaborative event between the Ecological Society (GfÖ) and the consortium NFDI4Biodiversity within the National Research Data Infrastructure Germany (NFDI). Various experts from the partner network (universities, data centers and research institutions) shared their widespread knowledge and trained participants in the fundamentals of Research Data Management (RDM) as well as cutting-edge technologies in handling environmental and biodiversity data across the Data Life Cycle (DLC). This is a collection of recorded lectures from this Winter School 2022.