Teaching and Training (TnT) and I'll win the Fight: Teaching and Training Research Data Management in Mathematics

The Mathematical Research Data Initiative (MaRDI) is the only math-specific consortium inside the NFDI. MaRDI set itself the ambitious task to provide services and research data management (RDM) training for a very diverse community of researchers: some using pen and paper only to develop new theory, some using a supercomputer to run numerical simulations, and everything in between. At the start of MaRDI's funding period, RDM topics were rarely taught in mathematics departments and little known. The consortium planned to tackle this situation by providing training through community workshops led by individual data-centered task areas, including computer algebra, scientific computing, statistics and machine learning, as well as cooperation with other disciplines and a general outreach team. The resources created within MaRDI for the purpose of teaching and training in RDM include a math-specific one-semester interactive RDM class "Infrastructure for Mathematics" at the University of Leipzig and a general, interdisciplinary RDM course at the University of Stuttgart. In addition to these courses, a first prototype of a train-the-trainer was developed and presented at the Math meets Information Specialists Workshop. The MaRDI Station, available as a portable or exhibition version, offers a gamified approach to RDM topics, with a prototype launched for the Love Data Week 2024. The game enables the user to autonomously learn about pitfalls in RDM and the importance of proper data sharing. In addition, an overview paper on the status quo of RDM planning in the German mathematics community and a white paper on RDM Planning in Mathematics has been published. MaRDI's outreach team runs a quarterly newsletter which introduces RDM topics and services to the community [8] and they reported on the success and focus of their activities, encouraging future trainers to "make it personal" and "make it fun" . Together with experts in algebraic phylogenetics, MaRDI transformed the early 2000's database "Small Phylogenetic Trees" into a best-practice example of FAIR mathematics, comprising a modern website and software package, as well as a report on lessons learned. With the resources presented, we have created a solid, introductionary-style foundation that we intend to adapt to other user groups in future work, for example to different areas of mathematics or for different career levels. We are also aiming for a modular approach, possibly as an addition to the FDM Mentor project.