How To Better Manage Your Data – Workshop at the GfÖ Conference 2022

Today the volume, complexity, and creation speed of research data are rising exponentially. While the awareness of the value of environmental data has been increasing, we still face the problem that research data is getting more transient. The reasons are that data vary in quality, are stored decentrally with no long term perspective and are thus not findable or reusable for other researchers. Further, they are often not standardized in format nor described properly using common metadata standards. However, in order to leverage the full potential of existing data, researchers need to work together and share their data in order to gain insight into complex ecological processes. The vast resources of biodiversity-related data enable the opportunity for analysing complex processes on larger scales and in an interdisciplinary manner. Furthermore, research institutions and funders, but also publishers increasingly demand transparency and promote data sharing practices. In order to make data FAIR – Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable ( www.force11.org/group/fairgroup/fairprinciples) –, 'good' research data management is needed.

NFDI4Biodiversity is part of the National Research Data Infrastructure, Germany. We boost research and support nature conservation by providing access to tools, and services for handling biodiversity and environmental data and to support good research data management.

The workshop How To Better Manage Your Data – And Thereby Enrich Research will take place as part of the Joint Conference of SFE2, GfÖ & EEF (November 21-25, 2022) and is divided into three sections. In the first section, we will teach the basics of research data management for ecologists across the whole data life cycle. Section two will then focus on the “first step” in the data life cycle – planning a research project. This section addresses the importance of a data management plan with practical examples. In the last section, we will share our experiences in the consortium NFDI4Biodiversity. This section will offer insight into one of the tools/services provided by our partners.

Main and co-organizers of the workshop
Dr. Daniel Tschink, GFBio e.V./NFDI4Biodiversity
Jimena Linares, GFBio e.V./NFDI4Biodiversity
Dr. Ivaylo Kostadinov, GFBio e.V./NFDI4Biodiversity

Contact: dtschink@gfbio.org