Research Data Engineering Calling Mathematics

Those not learning from past mistakes are doomed to repeat them – As a former research mathematician, I will summarize examples of past fails from mathematics in research data management and research software engineering. In my current position as a data engineer at the State and University Library of Münster, I will propose some simple measures for research data, software and publications from which not only mathematicians but all scientists could benefit. The insights leading to these propositions arose during the construction of a new metadata aggregator called "DatAasee", which will index metadata of research data as well as bibliographic metadata from distributed data sources. This is an open-source tool for libraries to provide one API to all their (meta-)data, and will hopefully help to avoid reproducing former tire fires.