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AKjDPG: Arbeitsgruppe junge DPG

AKjDPG 1: Data Literacy in the Physics Curriculum (joint session AGI/AKjDPG)

AKjDPG 1.2: Invited Talk

Thursday, March 23, 2023, 11:30–12:00, ZEU/0148

Integrating Digitalization and Research Data Management (RDM) into the Curricula of Bachelor and Master Students in Chemistry — •Fabian Fink, Alexander Hoffmann, and Sonja Herres-Pawlis — RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Ongoing and increasing digitalization is permanently changing the way research is conducted, experiments are documented, and data are stored. In general, this process requires the support of appropriate research data management (RDM) to enable sustainable research in the first place. [1] Currently, a rethinking takes place in academia focusing especially on the topic of RDM: working groups using electronic laboratory notebooks (ELNs) for documentation, publishers requiring authors to provide a data availability statement to describe how others can access their data, and scientists publishing their research data in repositories to ensure long-term storage and to meet the FAIR data principles (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable). [2] However, despite the growing awareness of RDM, incorporation of the topic into curricula is largely nonexistent or, if at all, in its infancy.

In this talk, we showcase two initial examples of integrating RDM into bachelor and master studies in chemistry to raise students’ attention at an early stage in their careers. Firstly, we present the implementation of an ELN in a bachelor lab course tracked with a survey among the students. Secondly, we show how we use case studies to combine a master lecture on sustainable chemistry with RDM content.

[1] Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202203038; Angew. Chem. 2022, 134, e202203038. [2] Sci. Data 2016, 3, 160018.