Trainers

• Justine Vandendorpe (ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences)
• Julia Fürst (ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences)
• Till Sauerwein (ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences)
• Rabea Müller (ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences)

BioNT - BIO Network for Training - is an international consortium of academic entities and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). BioNT is dedicated to providing a comprehensive training program and fostering a community for digital skills relevant to the biotechnology industry and biomedical sector. With a curriculum tailored for both beginners and advanced professionals, BioNT aims to equip individuals with the necessary expertise in handling, processing, and visualising biological data, as well as utilising computational biology tools. Leveraging the consortium's strong background in digital literacy training and extensive network of collaborations, BioNT is poised to professionalise life sciences data management, processing, and analysis skills.

This hands-on workshop will introduce you to data management processes and activities in academia and industry. You will learn how to make your data reusable, your analyses reproducible and your processes transparent. Good data management prevents data loss and saves time, money and resources. For researchers, it also increases visibility and reputation (by ensuring the quality of research), ensures data ownership (i.e. possession and responsibility for data), and makes them eligible for funding. Good data management also helps to meet formal and legal requirements, improves teamwork and collaboration, and ensures transparency, verifiability and reproducibility.

Here we offer a two-day workshop with the primary aim of introducing participants to good enough practices for managing their data. On the first day, participants will learn about the basics of data management, good research practices, Common European Data Spaces, data management and governance in industry and data management plans. On the second day, participants will learn how to organise their data, how to make it FAIR, about electronic lab notebooks and how to make their computational results reproducible (e.g. using tools and techniques suggested by Piccolo and Frampton 2016 [1]).

This workshop is based on the FAIRsFAIR Adoption Handbook [2] and online training materials from ZB MED [3], The Carpentries [4] and Code Refinery [5]. FAIRsFAIR - Fostering Fair Data Practices in Europe aims to provide practical solutions for using the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) Data Principles [6]. ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences is an infrastructure and research centre for information and data in the life sciences. ZB MED aims to ensure the national provision of information and literature in the life sciences for practical applications, teaching and research. The Carpentries is a non-profit organisation that teaches software engineering and data science skills to researchers to enable them to conduct efficient, open and reproducible research. All their teaching materials are freely reusable under the Creative Commons - Attribution licence [7]. CodeRefinery provides training and infrastructure for researchers to make their research more reproducible and transparent, furthering the goals of open science and FAIR data management.

Join this workshop if you are:

• Interested in good enough practices in data management
• Interested in learning how data is managed both in academia and industry
• Interested in writing a data management plan
• Interested in learning about the use and benefits of electronic lab notebooks
• Interested in making your data reusable
• Interested in making your analysis reproducible

Learning Outcomes: 

By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Know the importance of research data management in both academia and industry.
• Know good research practices.
• Know Common European Data Spaces concept and initiative.
• Be aware of European policies and regulations.
• Be aware of the enterprise data management processes and activities.
• Be aware of the enterprise data governance policies and procedures.
• Know the key organisational roles in data management and governance.
• Define Data Management Plans (DMPs).
• Articulate the purpose and benefits of DMPs for a project or organisation.
• Be able to create a DMP.
• Define, articulate the uses and benefits of electronic lab notebooks (ELNs).
• Articulate the role of ELNs in data security and privacy. 
• Be able to organise your files and folders appropriately.
• Know the FAIR data principles.
• Know tools and techniques to make data analysis reproducible.

Recommendations:

• To follow the workshop more efficiently, we recommend having a two-screen setup
• To actively communicate during the workshop, please familiarise yourself with Markdown formatting by reviewing the HedgeDoc features document

Interaction between participants, trainers and helpers

The workshop will be delivered in a Zoom webinar format, with participants’ visibility disabled to preserve their privacy. You, as a participant, will be able to see and learn from the trainers but a direct interaction (e.g. chat or voice) will not be possible during the sessions. Instead, a collaborative document, previously setup by the trainers, will be shared with you before the session. You will be expected to engage and interact anonymously with other participants as well as with the workshop helpers and trainers directly in this document.

Trainer Hubs

All BioNT workshops are offered at no cost, but there are a limited number of seats available. To make workshops more accessible for members of the same company we highly recommend organising what we refer to as "Training Hubs." In this arrangement, one person is formally registered for the workshop, but the knowledge sharing can be expanded to numerous colleagues within their company or SME through live-streaming the session.

Useful links and videos

• ELIXIR RDMkit
• ELIXIR TeSS Training materials on Data management
• Good Enough Practices in Scientific Computing
• The European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity
• Common European Data Spaces
• European Data Governance Act
• General Data Protection Regulation
• DAMA-DMBoK
• The what, why and how of data management planning
• ELN Guide
• ELN Finder
• ELN Comparison Matrix
• ELN in 2023: A comprehensive guide
• GO FAIR Initiative
• The FAIR Cookbook - the essential resource for and by FAIR doers
• The Turing Way: A handbook for reproducible, ethical and collaborative research

Topics

How to register

The workshop is free of charge. To participate, please follow these steps:

To participate, please follow these steps:

1. Click on the window “Participate” at the top of this page
2. You will be redirected to the members.cecam.org page. If you already have an account on our platform, please proceed to step 5
3. On the top-right corner click "Register" and complete the provided form. As indicated, completing this form does not register you to the workshop. Within 72 hours you will receive an email confirming your account has been activated. Due to this processing time, we advise you to register a few days before the registration deadline
4. After receiving the account activation confirmation, visit the workshop page again and follow instructions starting from step 1
5. You should now have an active account. After login in with your login details, you should be redirected to the workshop registration page
6. In order to start your registration please follow the instructions of the linked pre-workshop survey until you will get  your unique identifier
7.  To finalise your registration please use the unique identifier in the CECAM platform in the corresponding section and press “Send mail” 
8. Your application is now submitted for evaluation. If selected, you will be contacted later to confirm your attendance and provide instructions for installing the required software and participating in the online workshop.

Literature

[1] Piccolo, S. R., & Frampton, M. B. (2016). Tools and techniques for computational reproducibility. In GigaScience (Vol. 5, Issue 1). Oxford University Press (OUP), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13742-016-0135-4

[2] Engelhardt, C., Biernacka, K., Coffey, A., Cornet, R., Danciu, A., Demchenko, Y., Downes, S., Erdmann, C., Garbuglia, F., Germer, K., Helbig, K., Hellström, M., Hettne, K., Hibbert, D., Jetten, M., Karimova, Y., Kryger Hansen, K., Kuusniemi, M. E., Letizia, V., … Zhou, B. (2022). D7.4 How to be FAIR with your data. A teaching and training handbook for higher education institutions (V1.2.1). Zenodo, https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.6674301

[3] Vandendorpe J, Lindstädt B, Shutsko A, Markus K. Online Training Workshop on Research Data Management in (Bio-)Medicine. ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences; 2023,  https://repository.publisso.de/resource/frl:6452660

[4] Library Carpentry “FAIR Data and Software”, retrieved 2023-12-22, https://librarycarpentry.org/lc-fair-research/index.html

[5] CodeRefinery “Reproducible research - Preparing code to be usable by you and others in the future”, retrieved 2023-12-22, https://coderefinery.github.io/reproducible-research/

[6] Wilkinson MD, Dumontier M, Aalbersberg IjJ, Appleton G, Axton M, Baak A, et al. The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship [Internet]. Vol. 3, Scientific Data. Springer Science and Business Media LLC; 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.18

[7] Software Carpentry “About us”, retrieved 25.08.2023, https://software-carpentry.org/about/