Weekly news 13.08.2018

A group of 15 people involved in Software Development Best Practices Group met in Utrecht DTL office on 1-3 August for a hackathon, working on training material development for “Four Simple Recommendations for Open Source Software".  This was the second event of this initiative and first with the focus on lesson content writing. The efforts continue online via the lesson's GitHub repository.

Rob Hooft from ELIXIR Netherlands and Sarah Jones from Digital Curation Centre gave a webinar about Tools for Data Management planning in the EBI webinar series “Bringing data to life: data management for the biomolecular sciences”.

The NETTAB Conference 2018 in October in Genoa, Italy, will host a workshop Building a FAIR Bioinformatics environment on 22 October. The workshop will be present Bioschemas, a lightway approach to enable FAIRer data resources. Additionaly, on 24 October there will be tutorial organized by ELIXIR Netherlands and ELIXIR Czech Republic about the ELIXIR Data Stewardship Wizard – how to guide life science researchers towards FAIR data management. Registration for one or both tutorials can be done through the online workshop registration form.