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Data Stewards work at the interface between research and research infrastructure. Vienna University Library has offered the first Data Steward certificate course in Austria since 2022 to equip individuals for this emerging role. The course covers the fundamentals of Research Data Management (RDM), Open Science, programming, and didactics. The first 25 individuals from 10 countries completed the Englishlanguage training in September 2023. This paper introduces the University of Vienna‘s Data Stewardship program, the concept of the certificate course, and experiences from the initial implementation. The objective is to provide other libraries with innovative training ideas and provide prospective participants with insights into the course structure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An electronic lab notebook (ELN) will replace the paper lab books that have been used for decades in every research laboratory in the future. To this purpose, digital entries are being created at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) in the web-based software eLabFTW. Under the theme „Preserve your data & empower your research“ of the e-Science Days 2023, Bert Zulauf and Nina Knipprath presented the process of laboratory digitisation on a poster.1 This article explains the content of the poster and addresses the points of digitally reusable laboratory documentation, improving research quality, strengthening one‘s own research, forms and infrastructure as well as security requirements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Efficiency and sustainability play a central role in the continuing development of research data management services. Given the steady increase in research data and their usage, these objectives can hardly be achieved continuing to develop manual processes. The paper will discuss an example of process transformation implemented to achieve efficiency and sustainability when publishing data with DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers). It will present the Django web application that the Science Data Management team at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin has developed to automate the registration process using the API made available by the DOI provider DataCite. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper introduces Clarivate‘s Data Citation Index and asks whether it is a valuable resource for research as well as for libraries. The paper discusses the coverage of research data in the Data Citation Index, its selection criteria and indexing process, but also filtering functions and external links. This article demonstrates that the Data Citation Index can be a valuable resource for researchers as well as librarians, because it covers data of different disciplines and countries. It also makes it easier to find relevant research data and related literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]