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The CESSDA Data Archiving Guide (DAG) is a new resource designed to support the practical needs of data archive and repository staff. In the guide, data professionals can learn what a data archive is, what it does, and why data archives play an important role in the scientific infrastructure. The DAG focuses on common ground and is a useful tool for professionals new to data archiving or those …

The German Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie (ZfBB) published the interesting article about the data infrastructure for the social sciences (German: Eine Dateninfrastruktur für die Gesellschaftswissenschaften. Unterstützung in der Arbeit mit Forschungsdaten durch KonsortSWD). Blätte, Andreas; Fräßdorf, Anna; Heuer, Jan-Ocko; Hoffstätter, Ute; Leonhardt, Christoph; Menze, Laura; …

The RatSWD is pleased to announce its Working Paper 280/2022 which is dedicated the question how to start a Research Data Centre (RDC). Accessibility of research data is currently a central topic of science policy. The German government, for example, recommends in its data strategy, among other measures, the reinforcement of research data centers (RDC). Buck, D., Croisier, J., Eder, C., …

The Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration (HMC) is pleased to announce its last HMC FAIR Friday lecture titled "Automating FAIR metadata for software and datasets using open APIs" with Tom Morrell (Research Data Specialist, Caltech Library) on July 8th, 2022, 3 pm. A key challenge for FAIR software and datasets is creating metadata and keeping it updated. Open APIs provide an efficient way of …

The German Data Forum (RatSWD) is pleased to announce a Best Practice Collection. This collection provides information around the topic of research ethics in the research process for different user groups. The portal "Best-Practice Research Ethics" sees itself as an open and complementary offer. It is available in German at konsortswd.de/ratswd/best-practice-forschungsethik /.

The Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG ) published its position paper on Academic Publishing as a Foundation and Area of Leverage for Research Assessment. The position paper contributes to strengthening the framework conditions in the research system in a way that is appropriate to scholarship as well as providing input to national and international …

The Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG ) is pleased to announce the 6th ORCID DE Workshop titled "ORCID in extended contexts. Results and perspectives of persistent identifiers in science and culture" (ORCID in erweiterten Kontexten. Ergebnisse und Ausblick von persistenten Identifiern in Wissenschaft und Kultur). The workshop will be held online in …

The annual conference of the International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST) is please to announced titled the IASSIST 2022 "Data by Design: Building a Sustainable Data Culture". The conference will be held June 7th - 10th, 2022 in Gothenburg, Sweden. More details are available at: …

DataCite and Make Data Count (MDC) are pleased to announce the webinar titled "EXPLORE: the need for an open classification system" which will be held on April 7th, 2022, 3-4pm. The Make Data Count (MDC) is a scholarly change initiative, made up of researchers and open infrastructure experts, building and advocating for evidence-based open data metrics. The second webinar of "DataCite Make Data …

The Research Data Centers (RDCs) of the Statistical Offices of the Federation and the Federal States is pleased to announce the conference "Research with official Micro-Data". It will be held at Landesbetrieb Information und Technik, Statistisches Landesamt, Düsseldorf on May 17th – 18, 2022. The call for abstracts is addressed to researchers from Germany and abroad who work and have worked with …