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Olivera Kipcic – FAZ Archive – Franz-Josef Gasterich – Genios – Legios – ZDF – Digitalization – Information Center – Press Monitor – Thomas LindnerPractical Manual for Research Data Management – Annette Strauch-Davey – University of Hildesheim – De Gruyter – Open Access – Heike Neuroth – Jana Neumann – Markus Putnings – UB Erlangen-Nuremberg – FH Potsdam – Hannover Technical Information Library – Guidelines for ensuring good scientific practice – German Research Foundation – European Open Science Cloud – National Research Data Infrastructure – Johannes Fournier – Digital change – Scientific libraries – GO FAIR – Networking and cooperation – Data Sharing – Zotero – RADAR – Dark Side of Social Media – Excessive Use – Sleep Disorders – Poor Quality of Life – Amandeep Dhir – Shalini Talwar – Puneet Kaur – Sunil Budhiraja – Najmul Islam – Social Media Stalking – Online Self-Disclosure – Social Media Sleep Hygiene – Compulsive Social Media Usage – Problematic Sleep Disturbance – Politicians – Doctors – Parents – Teachers – Social media operators – Wellness providers – LinkedIn – Andreas Baulig – Contact requests – Creditreform Boniversum – Online use – Home as a fitness studio – Home as an educational institution – Online insurance – Online -Purchases
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Olivera Kipcic takes over the FAZ archive
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Cover story: “Research Data Management Practical Handbook” – A very good guide to practicing research data management – By Annette Strauch-Davey
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Outside the box: The dark side of social media: Excessive use leads to poor sleep and poor quality of life
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LinkedIn – Credtireform Boniversum
Personnel
Olivera Kipcic becomes head of the FAZ archive.
Farewell to Franz-Josef Gasterich
(FAZ) From May 1st, Olivera Kipcic will be responsible for the archives and information products department of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). She succeeds Franz-Josef Gasterich, who is retiring after 30 years. Frua Kipcic continues to work as head of content marketing .
Olivera Kipcic came to FAZ in 2006 and has since held various management positions responsible for content marketing. In June 2019 she was appointed deputy head of the FAZ archive. After studying business administration in Frankfurt, she initially worked as a management consultant at the Handelsblatt/Genios business database publishing group before moving to LEGIOS GmbH as “Head of Marketing”.
Franz-Josef Gasterich joined the FAZ in 1989 – after studying and working for the first few years at ZDF in electronic documentation. For more than 30 years, he pursued a consistent digitization strategy, converting the former paper archive into a competent information center that offers a wide range of digital products and services. He was significantly involved in the founding and development of Presse-Monitor GmbH and GBI-Genios.
The FAZ archive is one of the most renowned and extensive press archives in Europe. It operates the newspaper’s digital archive, is responsible for supplying the editorial teams with information and issuing licenses as well as the secondary use of newspaper content. It also supports external customers with a wide range of information and targeted research. In addition, the archive represents the rights of other well-known quality newspapers from Germany. Customers include companies, information professionals, media, authorities as well as scientific institutions and university libraries worldwide.
Thomas Lindner, CEO of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: “With his typical thoroughness and foresight, Franz-Josef Gasterich has expanded the FAZ archive into an institution that not only preserves the newspaper’s ‘memory’, but also makes a constant contribution to it Funds the FAZ’s quality journalism. We are very pleased that in Olivera Kipcic we were able to find an excellent expert in the industry as our successor, who is also very familiar with the company. She will continue and expand the successful work of the FAZ archive and content marketing. Our special thanks go to Franz-Josef Gasterich for his many years of excellent work. We wish him all the best for his retirement.”
Practical handbook for research data management”.
A very good guide for practicing
research data management
By Annette Strauch-Davey
The “Practical Handbook for Research Data Management” published on January 18, 2021 by Verlag De Gruyter (Open Access, doi:10.1515/9783110657807 ( https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110657807 ) can be a very good introduction to the heterogeneous subject areas for dealing with Research data in German is successful. I would like to recommend the book with this review.
In this publication, the editors Heike Neuroth and Janna Neumann and the editor Markus Putnings as well as all authors provide information about the individual areas of the FDM. Thanks to funding from the Erlangen-Nuremberg Open Access University Association, the manual was published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. The practical manual in open access is divided into five main chapters. Markus Putnings works at the Erlangen-Nuremberg University Library, Heike Neuroth at the FH Potsdam and Janna Neumann works at the Technical Information Library in Hanover. They all have expertise in research data management.
The primary target groups of the “Research Data Management Practical Manual” are scientists, students, librarians and people working in knowledge management. In principle, the contributions are aimed at anyone who is interested in the topics covered. The book contains illustrations and tables for the texts. These materials can support and visualize the experts’ statements on the respective aspects of “data handling” in depth.
Readers will certainly be able to learn something new from the book: 587 pages cover some very different RDM topics, such as data ecosystems, data markets including urban data spaces and open government. Interrelationships of data culture are discussed as well as curriculum developments, training and consulting concepts as well as training and further education. Furthermore, GO FAIR is explained, an active data management from planning to application. Other items that play a role include good documentation of research data and data quality. There are also the topics of data transfer and reuse: data retrieval, collaborative work, data visualization and the publication of research data.
It is precisely this diversity that makes the book so remarkable!
The practical handbook never loses sight of current events, such as the entry into force of the code «Guidelines for ensuring good scientific practice» of the German Research Foundation (DFG) as well as developments on the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI). Current progress in RDM reads like a common thread of explanations on the various topics. In the opening text, Johannes Fournier, the DFG program director for the Scientific Literature Supply and Information Systems Group (deputy head), writes about the tasks in research data management on page 2:
“The particular challenge for any efficient data management lies in designing a complexity that initially results from the needs and practice of the researchers themselves and which is reflected in the heterogeneity of data types as well as in the variety of usage scenarios.”
In their foreword, the editors then address the digital change in science and the willingness of politicians to promote the potential of good data management (including research data that is important for industry). In addition, legal problems in the context of the re-use of research data and traceability are discussed in order to prepare readers for what follows in detail in the chapters. In the 21st century, researchers have to live in a largely changed research landscape and in a new, digital library world and face a large number of scientific, technical and legal challenges. Some people are only now becoming aware of this, while for others data management has long been a matter of course.
Science is generally advised and supported by FDM bodies. Unfortunately, the relevant professional fields are still not well coordinated in terms of content and qualification names. At the end of the book there is a reminder and appeal that something has to change here in order for Germany to be able to keep up with other countries as a research location. At the end it is reminded and appealed that something has to change here in order for Germany to be able to keep up with other countries as a research location and then to conduct research globally. The “good practice” examples in the handbook are a useful companion for research-related services in academic libraries, among others. In everyday life, it is helpful if you can rely on tried and tested tools and metadata standards. The authors often describe their experiences with various tools, for example the RDMO tool for writing data management plans. The practical handbook also presents projects, developments and challenges in research data management in the individual chapters, for example the GO FAIR initiative on page 39:
“GO FAIR Initiative: The goal of the GO FAIR Initiative is to spread the FAIR principles across national and disciplinary boundaries. In an open and bottom-up approach, Germany, France and the Netherlands have come together to realize an Internet of FAIR data and services for the EOSC. There is a support and coordination office in each of the countries mentioned.
Networking and cooperation play an important role in FDM, as can be read again and again in the practical handbook and which I can only confirm from my everyday work. The manual should be read in the context of open and reproducible science in the sense of data sharing. There are many useful references in the footnotes, while the collected literature for the practical manual can be found on Zotero at the following link: https://www.zotero.org/groups/2497964/praxisberater_forschungsdatenmanagement
Open data about the book can be found in the RADAR data repository at doi:10.22000/325
The PDFs of the book chapters are long-term archived there for at least 25 years.
The aforementioned knowledge collection with 760 entries is available to readers to further deepen their RDM expertise. The chapters are very clearly laid out throughout, with abstracts, main part and conclusion. Everything that is essential for data management can be found here. The tools are named, for example tools for writing data management plans in chapter 4.1 “Planning, description and documentation of research data” by Jens Dierkes (pages 303-327). Challenges in INF subprojects such as acceptance and heterogeneity are described by Claudia Engelhardt and Harald Kusch (pages 451-475).
I immediately read the book thoroughly from start to finish and could hardly put it down. However, it is very possible to just read some of the chapters for your own practice, reflect on them and then implement what you have learned. The order of reading doesn’t matter.
I very much hope that the practical manual on research data management will be read by the management of all colleges and universities in Germany in order to finally be able to strategically promote research at the locations in the best possible way in the interests of scientific integrity. In other European countries, for example in the Netherlands and Scandinavia, research data management is better supported by university policy on several levels and is seen as a contribution to the international competitiveness of one’s own research. The book also makes it clear that FDM is a team effort locally, regionally, nationally and globally.
My conclusion: The practical manual is suitable as a reference work that can be consulted again and again. It is a very good guide for practicing research data management. I mention the practical manual for research data management on our website for research and publishing at the Hildesheim University Library and give it to the doctoral students at the Graduate Center to take with them on their journey:
https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/bibliothek/forschen-publizieren/forschungsdatenmanagement/
Current developments and challenges in research data management in Germany. Neuroth, H., & Oevel, G. (2021). «Current developments and challenges in research data management in Germany». In practical manual for research data management. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Saur. doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110657807-029
Outside the box (44)
The dark side of social media:
Excessive use leads to poor sleep and poor quality of life
Amandeep Dhir, Shalini Talwar, Puneet Kaur, Sunil Budhiraja, Najmul Islam, The dark side of social media: Stalking, online self-disclosure and problematic sleep, in: onlinelibrary.wiley.com, February 3, 2021. In this Norwegian-Indian Co-production confirms the particular dangers of excessive social media consumption for the quality of life of young adults in particular – based on a database of 876 users in the 18-25 age group. These dangers have become even greater due to the growing use of social media in Corona times.
The authors use the following definitions in their discussions:
Social media stalking = Impulsive engagement in knowingly and surprisingly monitoring other social media profiles
Online self-disclosure = Disclosure of personal information for different reasons, such as enhancing relationship quality, building social capital and self-presentation
Social media sleep hygiene = Maintaining a consistent schedule of sleep, using media in healthy ways and being aware of the adverse influence of media on sleep health, also includes sleep irregularity/latency
Compulsive social media usage = Represents an individual’s tendency to spend excessive time in activities, related to social media
Problematic sleep disturbance , such as delayed sleep, insufficient duration, erratic patterns, chronotypes and low-quality sleep.
In their results, the authors found, among other things, these hypotheses confirmed:
– a positive connection between “social media stalking”, problematic sleep and poor social media sleep hygiene
– more “social media stalking” leads to compulsive use of social media (including in the middle of the night and immediately before getting up) – a positive connection between “online self-disclosure” and poor social media sleep hygiene.
– “Social media use is the outcome of social media stalking and online self-disclosure, as well as the antecedent of problematic sleep.” Dhir et al. point to a negative connection between social media use and quality of life, as suggested by Salo (2019 ) has been proven.
The authors have developed recommendations for six target groups:
- Politicians should take the poor hygiene of adolescents in connection with the use of social media and its consequences (“poor psychological health, reduced daytime functioning, sleep medication usage and poor mental health”) seriously and address the issues raised by adolescents in awareness campaigns Draw attention to risks.
- Doctors should advise adolescents rather than prescribe sleeping pills.
- Young adults typically don’t listen to their parents. They should therefore regulate their children’s media use at an age when they can still be influenced by their parents.
- Teachers can play an important role “by educating students about social media’s negative implications, suggesting strategies to cope with the impulse to use social media indiscriminately, and employing low-threshold interventions in collaboration with psychologists and medical professionals to manage the fallout of using social media in a maladaptive way.”
- Social media operators should recognize that excessive use of their platforms will ultimately reduce their usage, even through political regulation. “Service providers should thus develop software with better built-in features to offer some safeguards against the misuse of social media, both additive and voyuristic.”
- Companies that sell wellness products (e.g. smart watches) should expand their functionality to include reminders such as “Shouldn’t you go to bed gradually?” and “Have you not sat in front of the screen long enough?”
Limit contact requests
to 100 per week
(Baulig Consulting GmbH) LinkedIn is taking action against contact spam and is rolling out a new update in Germany. The popup shown above is received by individual users who send over 100 contact requests per week.
“With this limitation, LinkedIn wants to curb the increasing acquisition efforts of some users,” says Andreas Baulig, marketing expert from Baulig Consulting GmbH. «In addition, LinkedIn obviously wants to make money – paid InMails, i.e. messages, can still be sent for a fee without any major restrictions.» The update will have a strong impact, especially in the B2B environment: «A limit of 100 may sound like a lot, but that’s only 20 inquiries in one working day. That’s much less than most prospectors send on LinkedIn every day and will have a big impact to all companies that have so far addressed business customers on LinkedIn,» continued Baulig.
According to many LinkedIn-related websites as well as LinkedIn support representatives, the new limit will be implemented for each profile in LinkedIn. Not every LinkedIn account is currently limited, but it appears that LinkedIn is testing the new limits on a portion of its users, so it’s only a matter of time before they are implemented for everyone. “An alternative could now be to increasingly use LinkedIn as a search engine to find potential customers,” says Andreas Baulig. In any case, mass acquisition on the platform is no longer so easy.
Online use in Corona times
Home becomes a gym
and an educational institution
Every second person takes out insurance online
(Creditreform Boniversum) The results of the current consumer survey by
Creditreform Boniversum shows the use of online services and usage methods:
Digital fitness offerings, learning platforms, but also online-supported financial and insurance offerings are being used significantly more during the Corona crisis. At the
Online shopping, on the other hand, does not show any major changes.
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Home becomes a private gym and educational institution.
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Home is no longer just a place of family and retreat. It is office, school, leisure and
Relaxation space in one. This retreat into the private sphere also has an impact on usage behavior
the consumer of online services. The home sometimes becomes a private fitness studio and an educational institution. Almost half of those surveyed said they used online services to keep fit at home (46 percent) – seven percentage points more than “before Corona”. Before Corona, around 42 percent of people used it
Those surveyed occasionally use online learning platforms, and more than one in two Germans currently use them
Consumers between the ages of 18 and 69 use appropriate online services for learning (51 percent).
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Buying insurance online is increasing
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48 percent of those surveyed took out property insurance online before the corona pandemic.
It is currently 53 percent (+ 5 percentage points). There is an increase in personal insurance
six percentage points (48 percent), albeit from a lower level.
53 percent of those surveyed open an account online, an increase of 7
corresponds to percentage points. However, when taking out loans online, consumers are
more reserved. However, here too there was an increase from 29 percent to 34 percent
(+ 5 percentage points). Classic online banking was already used by 80 percent of people before Corona
Respondents used and currently shows no changes.
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Online shopping at a high level even before Corona
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When it comes to online shopping, however, there are only minor changes. Around three quarters of those surveyed were already shopping for clothing or home textiles online before the restrictions. On the other hand, four of
Five of those surveyed (82 percent) said they mainly go to the supermarket for their weekly shopping.
This certainly reflects the wishes of consumers, especially in times of partial closure
Shops in the city centers and limited opportunities for leisure activities at least
to be able to enjoy the “experience and variety factor” when shopping for everyday things.
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Desktop use is increasing faster than smartphone use.
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In general, the survey results show that desktop usage tends to be greater than smartphone usage.
Usage increases. This trend can also be explained by the Corona-related retreat into private life. Consumers place particular emphasis on personally sensitive topics such as finances and insurance
more likely to use desktop tools (36 percent) than smartphones (17 percent).
46 percent of users who already use online services want to continue to do so in the future
“exclusively” via these channels. 40 percent see digital use as a supplement
“analog world”
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