1. Forum Helmholtz Research Data Commons

Fostering FAIRness, Enhancing Visibility, and Ensuring Data Quality

December 12, 2024, 10:00 – 12:00

Background

Research data and research data management (RDM) were increasingly prominent topics as they held unique scientific, societal, and economical potential. Across the Helmholtz Association, there were numerous community-specific approaches and initiatives to solve various RDM challenges. There was an increasing need for exchange between the Helmholtz Centers, to share good practices and explore possible common threads of action.

For this, the Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration (HMC) and the Helmholtz Open Science Office launched “Research Data Commons”, a joint recurring Helmholtz-forum for the exchange and discussion of research data-relevant topics at Helmholtz. The format of the Research Data Commons invited employees from all centers to share their experiences and approaches around specific focus topics.

The Research Data Commons series kicked off with a focus on FAIRness, visibility, and data quality. Among others, along the new concept for Helmholtz-wide quality indicators for software and data products, developed by the corresponding Task Group, which aimed to make software and data publications more visible and simultaneously improve their quality standards according to FAIR principles. This event was aimed at a broad audience and all interested Helmholtz employees were welcome. After a welcome and a short introduction of the Research Data Commons concept, there were inputs on the concept of the quality indicator and some tooling approaches that could be helpful in the implementation, followed by the possibility for exchange and discussion.

Program

Time	Topic	Speaker
10:00 - 10:15	Welcome and Introduction of the RDC concept	Sören Lorenz \| Speaker of Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration (HMC) Mathijs Vleugel \| Head of Helmholtz Open Science Office
10:15 - 10:30	HMC FAIR Data Dashboard	Markus Kubin \| Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB), HMC Hub Matter
10:30 - 10:45	HERMES - Automated workflows for rich software metadata from repositories	Guido Juckeland \| Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR)
10:45 - 11:00	Helmholtz Quality Indicators for Software and Data Products	Marcel Meistring \| Helmholtz Open Science Office
11:00 - 11:45	Discussion / Break out session
11:45 - 12:00	Wrap-up

Documentation

Genderjahn, S., Meistring, M., Vleugel, M., Brune, S., Frickenhaus, S., Murphy, B., Nimptsch, K., Nunes da Rocha, U., Selzer, M., Süß, W., Weber, F. (2025): 4th Helmholtz Open Science Forum on the NFDI - "Helmholtz Contributions to FAIRness and Data Quality", (Helmholtz Open Science Briefing), Potsdam : Helmholtz Open Science Office.
https://doi.org/10.48440/os.helmholtz.082