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The next talk by Kevin Schneider covered curating metadata as a version-controlled FAIR digital object, capturing metadata at the source of experiments rather than relying on downstream curation. My current research lies at the downstream end of this process, which made me realize how remarkable it would be if this data were captured at the start, as early as manuscript submission.
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The last talk by Wolfgang Müller in the session introduced spreadsheets designed to capture metadata systematically, built on the OpenRefine framework. I found it especially useful in the context of supplementary data, an area long overlooked in legacy research data management. In my current work I run into supplementary files reported in every conceivable format: nested tables, non-interoperable structures, you name it. At the reporters' end, this might be their creativity singing at its best. At the curators' end, those beautiful songs are usually lost in the cacophony of the jungle full of supplementary files. The OpenRefine framework offered a way to manage that cacophony in a sane manner.
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The last talk by Wolfgang Müller in the session introduced spreadsheets designed to capture metadata systematically, built on the [OpenRefine](https://openrefine.org/) framework. I found it especially useful in the context of supplementary data, an area long overlooked in legacy research data management. In my current work I run into supplementary files reported in every conceivable format: nested tables, non-interoperable structures, you name it. At the reporters' end, this might be their creativity singing at its best. At the curators' end, those beautiful songs are usually lost in the cacophony of the jungle full of supplementary files. The OpenRefine framework offered a way to manage that cacophony in a sane manner.
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Beyond this session, the conference offered plenty more worth noting. Maria Meister proposed a quality management framework for research services. Sarah Oranna Fischer-Zielke talked about metadata standards for animal research. Ata Ul Haleem showed how to measure just how FAIR a repository really is. Aaruni Kaushik talked about MaRDI, a packaging system that's easy to implement and use, requiring less training than some of the bigger players in the field. Ayorinde Afolayan showed how the Type Strain Genome Server is used by several researchers for genome-based prokaryote taxonomy. Keywan Hassani-Pak's intriguing talk explored hypothesis generation from knowledge graphs with the aid of AI agents. The keynote by Paul Shaw introduced dedicated software for streamlining in-field data collection in plant sciences. All these talks offered a piece of research data management at various levels of sample and data collection, analysis and integration.
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As part of the conference, the participants got a chance to visit some of IPK's facilities. I visited the PhenoSphere facility, where plants grow under strictly controlled environmental conditions (light, temperature, humidity, CO2 concentration, irrigation). It was an informative experience to know how the PhenoSphere facilitated study of a rhizotron system, where the roots are imaged via a monochrome camera and shoots through a high-resolution RGB camera. Some of the videos showing root growth under control versus treatment conditions were a delight to watch, as visually striking as they were informative. Visiting the experimental facilities outside my specialization was a refreshing experience.
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As part of the conference, the participants got a chance to visit some of IPK's facilities. I visited the [PhenoSphere](https://www.ipk-gatersleben.de/en/infrastructure/phenotyping/ipk-phenosphere) facility, where plants grow under strictly controlled environmental conditions (light, temperature, humidity, CO2 concentration, irrigation). It was an informative experience to know how the PhenoSphere facilitated study of a rhizotron system, where the roots are imaged via a monochrome camera and shoots through a high-resolution RGB camera. Some of the videos showing root growth under control versus treatment conditions were a delight to watch, as visually striking as they were informative. Visiting the experimental facilities outside my specialization was a refreshing experience.
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## Food for thought
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