Workshops
Please find our previous EduHub workshops below.
Upcoming Workshops:
Workshop "How to create publishable netCDF data"24+25 July 2025, 10am - 5pm, Hamburg
We will provide an in-person workshop in Hamburg on 24+25 July 2025.
The workshop deals with creating publishable netCDF (Network Common Data Format) data from the Earth System Sciences (ESS). Data Centers have certain demands regarding the content and format of ESS data - we will focus in this workshop on creating CF (Climate and Forecast) compliant netCDF files.
We encourage the target group - ESS doctoral candidates, master students and scientists - to bring their own data, but we will also provide data sets that can be used during the workshop. Prerequisites are programming skills in Python.
The workshop participants will work on their data after a short introduction to the netCDF data format, the CF conventions and how to create CF compliant netCDF files in Python. In the end they will show their results in short presentations in order to discuss the problems that occured and their solutions, as well as getting an insight in each others scientific work.
After the workshop, the participants will be able to answer the following questions:
- What is the netCDF data format?
- What are the CF conventions?
- What are essential metadata in the netCDF header?
- How do I create CF compliant netCDF files?
- How do I deal with special formats (single insitu measurements, ship observations, profiles, etc.) in the netCDF format?
Please send your registration per Email until 30 June to Remon Sadikni: remon.sadikni (at) uni-hamburg.de. In case of questions, please contact Remon Sadikni, too.
Detailed schedule:Day 1 | |
|---|---|
| 10:00 | Welcome / Introduction round |
| 10:20 | Introduction to netCDF Introduction to the CF Conventions |
| 11:20 | Break |
| 11:30 | How to Create netCDF files with Python |
| 12:30 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 | Introduction round: What kind of data do I want to create? |
| 14:30 | Working on your data |
| 16:50 | Short feedback round |
| 17:00 | End of Day 1 |
Day 2 | |
|---|---|
| 10:00 | Short introduction round: How far did I get, what is missing? |
| 10:20 | Working on your data |
| 12:30 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 | Preparation of a short presentation |
| 14:30 | Presentation of results |
| 16:50 | Short feedback round |
| 17:00 | End of workshop |
Previous Workshops
Workshop "How to create publishable netCDF data"July 2023 + 2024, Hamburg
In July 2024 and 2024, the NFDI4Earth member ICDC held workshops in Hamburg, where students and scientists were trained on how to use and publish Earth System Science data in a FAIR data format, in this case netCDF. The workshop successfully educated the participants on how to create and manipulate netCFD files, thus promoting the use of a FAIR conform data format. The learning material for the workshop is also available online, allowing for widespread education on this topic.
In this workshop, ICDC supported local personnel in planning and carrying out a workshop related to training students and scientists at various career levels in using/publishing ESS data in a FAIR conform data format, e.g. netCDF using the CF conventions.
Publishing research results and data products in Earth System Sciences (ESS) in a FAIR way is mandatory in many projects and forms one of the core topics within the NFDI4Earth. In ESS, such data products are often published and shared in the self-explanatory netCDF file format. This format enables across platform usage of the data published, and enables to store a content rich amount of metadata alongside the actual data, giving important information to make the data product FAIR
Publishing data in netCDF file format requires following a number of guidelines. These guidelines are, however, often not known well enough by those who want to publish their research results. One important element to improve this situation therefore is to teach researchers how publishing of data in netCDF file format works (and what kind of best practices should be adhered to).