On Monday, August 25th, the RWTH Aachen University Institute of Inorganic Chemistry hosted the DALIA Satellite Meeting to the Conference on Research Data Infrastructure (CoRDI) 2025. The event brought together an international group of experts for a full day of insightful presentations and discussions on data literacy, training platforms, and FAIR approaches in research and teaching.
Highlights included:
● Peter Pelz (TU Darmstadt / NFDI4Ing & EduTrain / DALIA), kicking off with “What is DALIA?”
● Cristina Grisot (University of Zurich / DaSCH / CLARIN & DARIAH): “Training and Education in DARIAH, CLARIN & SSH”
● Richard Hartshorn (University of Canterbury, Vice-President, CODATA): “To black box or not: how much should undergraduates learn about data standards, structures, and quality?”
● Tanja Hörner (DataNord): “Empowering Data Literacy – Strengthening Research in North-West Germany”
● Jan-Willem Boiten (Lygature / Health-RI): insights on “Data infrastructure services for health researchers”
● Egon Willighagen (Maastricht University): presenting “»This is where the next secrets will be found.«”
● Celia van Gelder (ELIXIR-NL / Health-RI): “Towards a national training and community platform for research data professionals in the Netherlands”
● Nicola Knight (PSDI): “Physical Science Data Infrastructure Training and Guidance for the physical sciences community”
● Oliver Knodel (HZDR): “From Islands to Ecosystems: The mTeSS-X Vision for Modular, FAIR Training Registries”
● Merce Crosas (Barcelona Supercomputing Center / CODATA): closing with “Becoming ready for AI in Science”
In addition to the day's presentations, the break time in between was full of lively discussions that deepened personal connections between the attendees and will support achieving strategic goals in the area of data literacy. It was a great start to a week full of topics related to research data infrastructure, followed by the 2nd CoRDI and the 2nd Base4NFDI User Conference (UC4B2025).
We would like to thank the speakers and all participants for their contributions as well as all DALIA members for their work for the DALIA platform. Finally, we would like to thank the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology, and Space (BMFTR) for their generous support!