Ecologically Sustainable RDM Practices In a time when human-induced climate change is contributing to rising global temperatures, the responsible use and conservation of natural resources, including energy and water, is increasingly important. Sustainable practices have a role to play across all areas of society; from business and infrastructure to research [...]

Boosting Biodata Bootcamp The NFDI4Microbiota hosted its Annual Conference from 15–17 September 2026 at RWTH Aachen University. The CRC1382 was represented at the conference by the data steward Catherine Gonzalez as well as the Technical training and consulting team lead, Dr. Lukas C. Bossert, from the RWTH IT Center Research [...]

Behind the Data: Understanding RDM Roles Who Does What? Data Steward vs Data Engineer vs Data Scientist As our data landscape grows, you may hear terms like Data Steward, Data Engineer, and Data Scientist. These roles sound similar, but they focus on very different parts of the data lifecycle. Here’s a simple [...]

Data Lake vs. Data Mesh Data Lake: The current landscape A Data Lake is a centralized place where data from many teams is stored together. While this can be convenient, it often means that the people who best understand the data (the domain experts) are not the ones defining how [...]

Metadata: Data about Data? What is it? Metadata has been defined as data about data, a "love note to the future" (Scott, Jason. 2011. “The Metadata Mania.” ASCII. http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3181.). It is a way to give context to the data so that it can be understood and reused at a later [...]

LaTeX: Allowing you to focus on content, not appearance. Logo taken from: www.latex-project.org What is it? LaTeX is a software system used to prepare documents from smaller documents such as resumes and articles to large documents such as books. LaTeX is not the same as Microsoft Word! [...]