Love Data Week is an international celebration promoting research data and their management. This year's theme, "Whose Data Is It, Anyway?", will inspire discussions and events worldwide from February 10 to 14, 2025. Explore all events happening in the German-speaking region during Love Data Week 2025 here.

The FAIRmat team is joining the celebration with two online coffee talks:

• "Whose Data Is It, By the Way?" by Siamak Nakhaie, February 10 at 11:30 CET
• "NOMAD: A Platform for Managing Research Data in Materials Science" by Ahmed Mansour, February 11 at 13:00 CET

Register here to join us online and celebrate the love for data!

In FAIRmat tutorial 16, you'll learn how to use NOMAD to manage and organize your materials-science research data. Whether you are working with computational or experimental data, NOMAD's graphical user interface makes it easy to upload, share, explore, and analyze your data. We will also focus on using NOMAD to improve collaboration on your research projects and to ensure that your data align with the FAIR data principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable). 

What you'll do:

• Search and filter through more than 19 million records using criteria such as materials, properties, or methods.
• Explore data records and gain insights from the rich metadata structured in NOMAD's data model.
• Upload raw data files and inspect the extracted data structured in NOMAD's data model.
• Visualize your data directly in your browser, share them with collaborators, and publish them on NOMAD.
• Create a dataset and simulate publishing it with a DOI.
• Document your research with electronic lab notebooks (ELN) using NOMAD’s built-in templates.
• Create custom ELN templates (demo).
• Write a custom parser for tabular data, such as in .csv or .xls files (demo).

At the end of this tutorial, you will be able to:

• Efficiently search, filter, and explore materials-science data in NOMAD.
• Manage, upload, and share your research data using NOMAD.
• Publish your datasets with DOIs to ensure accessibility and reusability.
• Use the NOMAD ELN functionality to document your research.
• Understand the essentials of creating custom templates and parsers for your research data.

The DPG-Frühjahrstagungen (Spring Meetings) are among the largest physics congresses in Europe, drawing over 10,000 participants from Germany and abroad. Organized annually at various locations and universities across Germany, these meetings are a key platform for sharing knowledge and fostering young talent.

As a regular participant, FAIRmat will be contributing to this vibrant exchange with a range of presentations and activities. You can find out more here and meet us at our stand, shared with DAPHNE, in Audimax foyer no. A25.

From May 26–30, 2025, we will participate in the annual Spring Meeting of the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS), held at the Convention & Exhibition Centre in Strasbourg, France. The conference will feature invited speakers across 23 parallel symposia, providing an international forum to discuss recent advances in materials science.

Visit us at booth no. 35 to learn more about FAIR data principles and NOMAD—we look forward to seeing you there!

Next August, FAIRmat will participate in the 7th general conference of the worldwide Psi-k community at the SwissTech Convention Center, EPFL. We are honored to contribute to this major conference on electronic structure. Stay tuned for event updates!