On August 26, the time had come: The second edition of the Conference on Research Data Infrastructure (CoRDI) opened its doors at RWTH University in Aachen. Until August 28, there was an extensive program to experience, with interesting keynotes, exciting lectures, two poster sessions, and a market of opportunities.
Greater knowledge through better use of research data and the resulting added value for society as a whole – that is what CoRDI, organized by the NFDI (National Research Data Infrastructure), stands for. Around 700 national and international researchers from the field of research data management attended the conference. Together, they are developing the FAIRness of research data into the new standard, thus ensuring greater transparency, interoperability, sustainability, and reproducibility of data. A must for FAIRagro, of course.
Our colleagues enjoyed three inspiring days in Aachen – with lots of new insights, fresh ideas, intensive discussions, and exciting exchanges with representatives of the other NFDI consortia and the FDM community.
Birte Lindstaedt, FAIRagro Co-Spokesperson: “In addition to the progress made by the consortia on the technical side, I believe that the most important challenge remains reaching our respective communities — because the success of FAIRagro is to be measured by the number of people who use our services.”
Marcus Schmidt, DSSC / Helpdesk coordinator, adds: “I found it amazing to see how ideas and concepts have turned into many tangible tools and real services over the past two years. Our challenge will be to network these tools and services with each other and bring them to the respective communities in the coming years.”
A comprehensive follow-up report on the event with comments from participants is available on the NFDI website.
Contributions from FAIRagro and with participation of FAIRagro
Sophie Boße and Sabrina Jordan: Tailored Research Data Management Training for Agricultural Scientists – A Collaboration between FAIRagro and the Research Data Management Service at the University of Kassel. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16736206
Workshop on Synergies in Life Sciences – Joint strategies and services for national and European collaboration between NFDI consortia – Led by: Christian Busse, Barbara Ebert, Frank Ewert, Juliane Fluck, Konrad U. Förstner, Oliver Kohlbacher, Björn Usadel and Stefanie Weidtkamp-Peters. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16736338
above mentioned Workshop including: Marcus Schmidt, Birte Lindstädt, Judith Engel and Klaus Getzlaff – Enhancing user support across research domains – The Geo-Chem-Life Science helpdesk cluster https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16735897
Anne Sennhenn, Oliver Kirchgessner, Manuela König, Carsten Hoffmann, James M Anderson and Ulrike Stahl – From Numbers to Norms: A Community Journey driving Cultural Change towards FAIR and collaborative Research Data Management – Insights and Evidence from FAIRagro https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16735324
Lea Sophie Singson, Lucia Vedder, Wahib Sahwan, Elena Rey Mazon, Nikolai Svoboda and Marcus Schmidt – FAIRagro’s Power of Support – Cultural Change through more and merrier Helpdesk Customers in the Agrosystem Science https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16735814
Julian Schneider, Johannes Darms, Vera Clemens, Nils Wehrmeyer, Ataul Haleem, Angela Kranz, Björn Usadel, Juliane Fluck – From RDM Software to Semantic Portals – Leveraging Dataverse as a Flexible Framework for Research Data Discovery https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16736232
Gerald Jagusch and Martin Spenger – 10 years of RDMO – The Research Data Management Organiser as software and community https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16736064
Sophie Boße, Lea Sophie Singson, Jonas Kuppler and Daniel Tschink – Don’t panic! A Survival Guide for Law and Ethics in Research another step towards “OneNFDI” through interconsortial trainings https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16736190
Jens Krumsieck, Antonia Leidel, Patrick König and Harald von Waldow – Easy creation of reproducible computational workflows with SciWIn-Client https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16735806
Daniel Bauer, Jonas Grieb, Claus Weiland, Daniel Martini and Markus Möller – Fostering FAIRification and AI-Readiness of Agrosystems Research Data https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16735921
Anne Sennhenn and Benjamin Leroy – o-Creation in Practice: How Use Cases Drive FAIR Data Solutions with and for the Agricultural Research Community https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16735330
Jascha Jung, Nils Reinosch, Gabriel Schneider and Daniel Martini – A Framework for Machine-Actionable FAIR Assessments as a Tool to Measure FAIRification Success https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16736283
Jorge García Brizuela, Carsten Scharfenberg, Carmen Scheuner, Florian Hoedt, Patrick König, Angela Kranz, Antonia Leidel, Daniel Martini, Gabriel Schneider, Julian Schneider, Lea Sophie Singson, Harald von Waldow, Nils Wehrmeyer, Björn Usadel, Stephan Lesch, Xenia Specka, Matthias Lange and Daniel Arend – A Federated Approach to Overcome Data Integration Challenges Across Research Domains https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16735986
Julian Schneider, Theresa Idda, Taras Günther, Roman Baum, Gabriel Schneider, Lucia Vedder, Matthias Filter and Juliane Fluck – Semantic Tools for Making Food Safety Research FAIR and Future-Proof – Interoperable Terminology Services and Ontologies for Food Safety re-used in FAIRagro https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16736240