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📣 News Digest #RDM in #NaturalScience Week 16, 2026!

Today with #DAPHNE4NFDI, @nfdi4chem.de, @nfdi4earth.bsky.social, @fairmat.bsky.social and myself. Enjoy reading!

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#FAIRElephantNews #FAIRdata #RDM #ResearchDataManagement #RADAR4Chem

Get a glimpse of this week’s #MatWerk & #FAIRmat RDM Spring School in Erlangen. With a balanced program combining theory and practice, participants got an overview of a full end-to-end data workflow using NOMAD, NOMAD CAMELS, PASTA ELN, and Coscine.

Big thanks to all participants and contributors!🙏

💡 Got something to show or discuss with the NOMAD community?

Join the Users-Meet-Developers exhibit at the upcoming FAIRmat Users Meeting! Present your work, exchange ideas, and interact directly with NOMAD developers.

👉 Register by May 31: events.fairmat-nfdi.eu/event/50/

#FAIRmat #NOMAD #RDM

📆 May 28, 13:45–14:15
"NOMAD – a Platform for Accelerating Materials Research" by Claudia Draxl
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📆 May 26, 14:45–15:00
“From FAIR Data to FAIR Models: Machine Learning Workflows Integrated with Research Data Infrastructures” by Hampus Näsström
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Next month, we’re heading to #EMRS Spring Meeting 2026 in Strasbourg!

Visit #FAIRmat at booth 35 to learn more about #FAIRdata and the #NOMAD infrastructure.
Join Symposium E for talks by Hampus Näsström and Claudia Draxl ⬇️

A great new series spotlighting how #NFDI consortia support research communities in practice💡

Thank you for highlighting #NOMAD and we're looking forward to the next post in the series!

We have arrived at #BunsenTagung2026!

Today and tomorrow, you can find the #FAIRmat booth at @tudresden.bsky.social. Stop by for a live demo of the #NOMAD platform and learn how FAIRmat services can support your research and make it FAIR-compliant and ready for data-driven science.

🎉 A new Nature Catalysis publication highlights FAIRmat’s work on open, FAIR catalysis data! It presents the NOMAD Catalysis App, a web-based app to share, explore & analyze data in a FAIR-compliant way.

🔗 Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🔗 Explore the app: nomad-lab.eu/prod/v1/gui/...

Next week, FAIRmat is heading to #BunsenTagung2026!

Visit our booth at @tudresden.bsky.social to learn more about #FAIRdata principles, the #NOMAD infrastructure, and FAIRmat services for the scientific community.

#FAIRmat #MaterialsScience #NFDI

🎤 FAIRmat Seminar with Prof. Dr. Christopher Künneth (@unibayreuth.bsky.social)

Learn how machine learning and chemical language models can support the prediction of polymer properties and the design of materials.

💻 Info & registration: events.fairmat-nfdi.eu/event/48/

Last week, Lukas Pielsticker represented FAIRmat at the kickoff of the Operando4NeXus project within @helmholtzhmc.bsky.social. The project aims to align metadata standards and bring communities closer to shape #FAIRdata for the future!
Looking forward to a successful cooperation!🙏

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📣 News Digest #RDM in #NaturalScience Week 12, 2026!

Today with @fairmat.bsky.social, #NFDI4Cat, - @nfdi4chem.de, @nfdi4earth.bsky.social, @psdi-uk.bsky.social and @researchspace.com. Enjoy reading:

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#FARIElephantNews #RDM #ELN #ResearchDataManagement

📢 Registration is open for the 8th FAIRmat Users Meeting!

Whether you're just getting started or already using NOMAD, the event offers valuable insights, practical skills, and chances to connect with the community.

✅ Free participation
🗓 Register by May 31, 2026
🔗 events.fairmat-nfdi.eu/event/50/

Great week at the @dpgphysik.bsky.social SKM Spring Meeting!🎉
FAIRmat had a strong presence with talks, Hacky Hour sessions, and lively discussions at the joint FAIRmat-DAPHNE4NFDI booth. Thanks to everyone who connected with us and explored how #NOMAD supports FAIR research data.

#DPGDD26 #NFDI

Are you in Dresden for the @dpgphysik.bsky.social Spring Meeting?
We’ve set up our booth and look forward to connecting with the community!

📍 Visit the joint FAIRmat–DAPHNE booth A50 (Tent A) or join one of our talks today, tomorrow, or on Thursday.

⏰ Reminder: the registration deadline for the upcoming CECAM Flagship Workshop is March 8, 2026.

If you plan to join the discussion, now is the time to secure your spot:
🔗 www.cecam.org/workshop-det...

We look forward to seeing you in Lausanne!

👉More info: www.fairmat-nfdi.eu/events/dpg-s...

Dresden is calling! Less than 2 weeks until @dpgphysik.bsky.social Spring Meeting.
On March 8–13, @tudresden.bsky.social welcomes thousands of participants from Germany and abroad. Our colleagues will also present their work. Save the schedule and find #FAIRmat at #DPGDD26!

📣 The 8th edition of the FAIRmat newsletter is now available online!
Stay up to date with recent project developments, enjoy insightful interviews, and explore highlights from the FAIRmat community.

🔗 Read and download: www.fairmat-nfdi.eu/uploads/docu...

🗓 April 13–16, 2026
📍 FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
📝 Registration: www.eusmat.net/research/oth...
⏰ Deadline: March 10, 2026

📢 NFDI-MatWerk & FAIRmat Spring School – Research Data Management in Materials Science and Engineering

Join our Spring School in Erlangen for hands-on training and practical insights tailored to materials science and engineering.

Still got questions? Join our Discord community: discord.com/invite/Gyzx3...!

#LoveData26 #FAIRdata

💙 #LoveDataWeek 2026
📍The data in #NOMAD are behind APIs & workflows

At scale, NOMAD exposes data through APIs and automation-ready workflows, enabling programmatic access, AI/ML pipelines, and large-scale analysis. At this stage, data become operational, powering continuous research and discovery.

NOMAD forms a federation of interoperable Oases and integrates external databases, community repositories, and legacy systems, supporting continuous evolution. Deep interconnections between infrastructures that speak NOMAD natively foster an agile network for data reuse.

#LoveData26 #FAIRdata

💙 #LoveDataWeek 2026
📍 The data in #NOMAD are across a federated ecosystem.

As data accumulate, the next step is to connect them within a shared ecosystem. NOMAD is not only a place where databases connect, it is also a framework where institutional infrastructures themselves can become databases.

💙 #LoveDataWeek 2026
📍 The data in #NOMAD are in daily research workflows.

FAIR data start in labs long before publication. With NOMAD Oasis, labs make daily research workflows FAIR, capturing data directly from experiments and simulations at the bench and terminal.

#LoveData26 #FAIRdata

💙 #LoveDataWeek 2026
📍 The data in #NOMAD are in structured metadata.

NOMAD turns raw files into FAIR data using parsers and schema plugins, as well as NOMAD Metainfo. NOMAD extracts machine-readable meaning, making data searchable, comparable, and reusable.

#LoveData26 #FAIRdata

💙 #LoveDataWeek 2026
📍The data in #NOMAD are at the source.

Data start as raw, domain-native files exactly as produced by instruments and simulation codes. Nothing is changed and nothing is abstracted. This raw layer ensures reproducibility, provenance, and long-term archival.
#LoveData26 #FAIRdata

💙 #LoveDataWeek 2026 | Where’s the data in #NOMAD?

From Feb 9–13, we explore where data live in the NOMAD ecosystem, from raw files to FAIR data, labs, infrastructures, and APIs. One answer per day. Follow along!

#LoveData26 #FAIRdata