Agenda: Activities and status so far: Online seminar series Metadata/Data Annotation - Paula DMP for engineering disciplines - Daniela PIDs for Instruments within engineering - Nikola Presentation on “Provenance on engineering data” (Gretchen Greene - NIST) The RDA has long been a proponent of the value in capturing provenance for research data. Why is this important for Engineering? Engineering thrives most often when there is a system level approach for conducting research with interconnected processes and data sources of varying nature. In this discussion we share key concepts, known/existing provenance models, and explore ideas where provenance information can support what’s missing in navigating the data space in engineering research (and yes this includes software!) Presentation on “Research software for engineers” (Sibylle Hermann - University of Stuttgart and Santosh Ilamparuthi - Delft University of Technology) Research results in engineering are often software or are based on software. However, most engineers are not trained in software development. Software engineering principles can not be fully adopted for research software, because software development is not the actual goal itself, it is the means to an end. In engineering sciences in particular, obstacles for sharing code are that code is developed within industrial cooperation with confidentiality agreements in place and the widespread use of commercial software such as Matlab. The following questions are intended to be addressed: - Which software development skills are needed by engineers? - How can research software be better documented and shared in the engineering context? - What basic conditions do we need to achieve FAIR research software in engineering? Group work like a world cafe breakout room on the topics “engineering data provenance” and “research software in engineering” after half the time the participants swap breakout rooms so that everyone has the opportunity to discuss both topics 3-minute-pitches from the breakout rooms Closure, discussion on next steps