The state initiative fdm.nrw is once again organising the RDM workshop - this year at the University of Münster. The RDM workshop is an interactive, hands-on event covering all areas of research data management. The target group is primarily all practical users of RDM tools - the event offers the opportunity to learn from each other and try out new things.

Although registration is already closed, we would nevertheless like to draw participants' attention to the strong presence of HHU 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.