Linking Research Data

Efficient management and accessibility of research data are vital tasks that researchers face in their work. Meeting the requirements of Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) principles can be challenging without the right tools and methodologies. This workshop aims to address these challenges by presenting three tutorials and a presentation that focus on linking research data through various repositories and frameworks.
The first two tutorials, "NFDI-MatWerk Data Repository" and "NFDI-MatWerk Metadata Repository'', introduce the participants to the NFDI-MatWerk Data and Metadata repositories, respectively. Both repositories offer the Materials Science and Engineering community an easy to use interface. The NFDI-MatWerk Data Repository allows to store, retrieve, and manage research data. In addition, the NFDI-MatWerk Metadata Repository manages the associated metadata documents and their underlying schemas. The first tutorial shows the participants how to ensure seamless data management, while the second tutorial focuses on registering metadata documents, creating new schemas, and establishing links between metadata and data using persistent identifiers. ... mehr
The presentation "Accessing Multiple Metadata Repositories" addresses the lack of interoperability among existing metadata repositories in the research data management domain. We introduce the Metadata Hub, a solution that acts as a central interface connecting multiple metadata repositories. This turntable-like system provides standardized access to various repositories, overcoming the interoperability challenges researchers face when querying and storing metadata.
The final tutorial "Recipe to Create FAIR Digital Objects" caters to researchers seeking improved data management practices by offering an introduction on the FAIR Digital Objects concept and the process to create them. We will show the available services and tools developed and maintained in the context of NFDI-MatWerk and HMC, i.e. Typed PID Maker, Coscine, and FAIR-DOscope, as well as their interaction.
By attending this workshop, researchers will gain valuable insights and knowledge on utilizing data repositories, managing metadata, accessing multiple repositories, and understanding the benefits of implementing the FAIR Digital Object concept as an additional layer to the existing distributed resources.
This work has been supported by NFDI-MatWerk (DFG – n. 460247524), NFDI4Ing (DFG – n. 442146713), NFFA-Europe-Pilot (EU H2020 – n. 101007417), the research program ‘Engineering Digital Futures’ by the Helmholtz Research Association and the Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration (HMC) platform.