SIGDIUS Seminar - online - 2pm

February 12, 2025, 2:00 p.m. (CET)

Time: February 12, 2025, 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
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The Special Interest Group Data Infrastructure offers a forum to interested working groups that want to set up or further develop an RDM infrastructure at working group or institute level. We invite you to a monthly SIGDIUS seminar, to which we invite internal and external experts for presentations and discussions. SIGDIUS members will have the opportunity to exchange their experiences with concrete RDM infrastructures.

We cordially invite all interested parties to our next meeting on 12 February 2025 at 2 pm. This seminar will be held as an online seminar. For participation, please send an e-mail to Juergen.Pleiss@itb.uni-stuttgart.de.

Oliver Clemens
Institute for Material Sciences, University of Stuttgart

Digital Lab Notebooks in Research and Teaching in Materials Science

Within our project in SFB1548, our group had to use and introduce Elab FTW as an electronic lab notebook, which we implemented by ourselves on a cheap server infrastructure. Over the last 1.5 years of user experience, we saw a lot of advantages it can bring in order to stick to rules of good scientific practice of DFG regarding data documentation, to regulate bookings of equipment of our group, to share data between group members and cooperation partners and to manage resources like chemicals in an efficient and transparent manner. In addition, we have now included the use of Elab FTW in practical lab courses of the Materials Science master course. This talk aims to provide a brief usage scenario on how this tool is implemented in my group and how it is used by the members of my team.

Oliver Clemens
has been a Full Professor (W3) for Materials Synthesis at the University of Stuttgart since September 2020. Previously, he held positions as a Substitute Professor (W2) and Assistant Professor (W1) at TU Darmstadt, where he led an Emmy Noether Research Group. He completed his Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry at Saarland University (summa cum laude) and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Birmingham.

Björn Selent
FoKUS - Kompetenzzentrum für Forschungsdaten
IZUS/TIK

ELBUS: A roadmap to a central ELN-service at the University of Stuttgart

Within the last couple of years there has been an increasing demand in providing a centralized digital research support infrastructure to the scientists of the University of Stuttgart. High up on the list of desired tools are so called Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELNs). In order to meet this request, the FoKUS team started an internal project called ELBUS with the goal to provide such an ELN as hosted service at the University's computing centre. In this talk we will present the results of the requirements analysis and and the steps necessary to implement such a service. We will explain the processes involved to identify a solution that meets the needs of scientists and to evaluate the offered solutions. We will also discuss how the service will be set up and how it can be established in the future.

Björn Selent holds a degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Stuttgart. He majored in data processing and aerodynamics. After having worked in research in the field of aerodynamics at the Trinity College Dublin and University of Stuttgart he swapped sides and has been working as IT manager since. In 2023 he joined the FoKUS team to take up his current position as research data manager.

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