At the Helmholtz-Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology (HIF), researchers develop new technologies to improve circular economy. In this context, different types of samples (e.g. rock samples, recycling material) play an important role. The sample passes through different states and labs – starting at the sample preparation, through the analysis of the particular sample to the final...
Biomolecules, such as DNA and RNA, provide a wealth of information about the distribution and function of marine organisms, and molecular sequencing data from the marine realm is generated across several Helmholtz Centers. Biomolecular (meta)data, i.e. DNA and RNA sequences and all steps involved in their creation, exhibit great internal diversity and complexity. However, high-quality...
The Nuclear, Astro, and Particle Metadata Integration for eXperiments (NAPMIX) project was recently awarded funding within the scope of the OSCARS call on open science and will start in December 2024. The project aims to facilitate data management and data publication under the FAIR principles on the European level by developing a cross-domain metadata schema and...
Introduction: The environment plays an important role for human health and efficient linkage of epidemiological cohorts with environmental data is crucial to quantify human exposures. However, there are no harmonized standards for automatic mapping of metadata of our three domains Health (HMGU), Earth & Environment (UFZ), and Aeronautics, Space & Transport (DLR).
Objective: We aimed to...
The objective of the HMC Data Professionals Survey 2024 is to gain insights into the perspectives, workflows and needs of research data professionals in the Helmholtz Association. The survey is part of HMC's mission to enhance the sustainable management of research data and to more closely align its services with the needs of data professionals at various Helmholtz centers. A comprehensive and...
There has been substantial increase in number of scientific publications across diverse disciplines. These publications often generate metadata, scholarly content and scientific models/source code etc. Though such information is made available to research communities under open science initiative, numerous scholarly repositories have emerged over the years to harvest metadata in various...
Abstract
Research in the Helmholtz Association undergoes continuous digitization. The heterogeneity of scientific contexts within Helmholtz leads to ambiguity and conflicts regarding metadata semantics. To ensure semantic interoperability of this decentralized data ecosystem, metadata should be aligned and harmonized with European and global initiatives to ensure an open and interoperable...
Here we present the latest updates of our data-driven approach to monitoring and assessing the state of open and FAIR data in the Helmholtz Association. The approach consists of two parts: a modular data harvesting-, validation- and assessment pipeline, and a dashboard with interactive statistics about the Helmholtz-data publications identified. The dashboard provides insight into which data...
