In the first workshop on July 8, 2025, the focus will be on usage via the web interface. The second workshop on July 9, 2025, will focus on integration via the API interface. In addition to an overview of eLabFTW's features, both events offer practical exercises and opportunities for exchange.

Participation is free of charge. Registration is required by July 6, 2025, 12:00 p.m. via this link: https://tu-darmstadt.zoom-x.de/meeting/register/0IjQ2NPkRiSeS8Pr2_e9Zg

Dates and Participation

July 8, 2025, 10:00–11:30 a.m. – Usage via the web interface
Participation link: https://tu-darmstadt.zoom-x.de/meeting/register/0IjQ2NPkRiSeS8Pr2_e9Zg

July 9, 2025, 10:00–12:00 a.m. – Usage via the API interface
Participation link: https://tu-darmstadt.zoom-x.de/meeting/register/0IjQ2NPkRiSeS8Pr2_e9Zg

Contents of both workshops:

• Basic functions and application areas of eLabFTW
• Practical exercises
• Best practices for everyday research

Although registration is already closed, we would nevertheless like to draw participants' attention to the strong presence of MUHS in this year's programme. In the morning programme on 1 April, Dominik Brilhaus from CEPLAS (Cluster for Excellence on Plant Sciences) will present the work with Annotated Research Contexts (ARC) to enrich research data with meta-information in connection with DataHub.

In the afternoon programme on the same day, Dirk Fleischer from the RDMC together with Dominik Brilhaus will ask what makes infrastructure a good service for research data management. The aim of the workshop is to obtain perspectives from different institutions and also from different groups of people. These experiences will ultimately be compiled in a white paper.

For those who think the RDM workshop sounds like an interesting event but missed the deadline to register, we recommend setting a reminder for the end of January 2026 - we assume that around this time registration for the next RDM workshop will open and/or details of the event will be known.

“In short, ORCID iDs enable the unique identification of a person – whatever spelling of their name is used, whether Müller, Muller or Mueller. ORCID iDs also eliminate any confusion about who has published what in the event that several people share the same name,” says Dr Christian Hohenfeld from the RDM team. “They ensure that a person’s publications are clearly identified as theirs.”

Use of this persistent digital identifier is becoming increasingly widespread internationally in the world of science. Many journals now offer the option of stating an ORCID iD and the MUHS Publication Guideline explicitly recommends use of this system. The ORCID iD is not only useful for scientific papers, but also for data publications, software packages and all other cases where someone wishes to be uniquely identified as the author of a piece of work. The system is provided by a global non-profit organisation: There are no costs for anyone who uses the ORCID iDs. 

How can entries be made?
Enter once, use repeatedly: An online collection of previous publications and other data is created; the iDs are usually stated with the corresponding link. In the best-case scenario, this enables readers of an article to find all other publications belonging to this person directly. They can be reliably transferred to archive systems and new publications can be added. An example.

Note: It also makes sense to include the iD into the email signature. A look at the corporate design portal (German only) reveals where it fits best.

More information (German only) and about ORCID

If you guess the riddles to the Research Data Scary Tales, you can win a Research Data Scary Tales card game.

Unfortunately, it's already over this year. But next year there will certainly be another week full of data horror!

Further information can be found at forschungsdaten.info