Johannes L. Hörmann just completed his PhD at the University of Freiburg on the topic of “Friction of adsorption films with reproducible molecular dynamics”. The research group he was embedded in started using dtool [1] as the method of choice for their internal research data management (RDM). He quickly evolved into a power user, integrating dtool datasets in his computational workflows for high-throughput exploration of high-dimensional parametric spaces. His intense involvement with the group-internal RDM lead him to the role of Data Steward at the Cluster of Excellence livMatS of the University of Freiburg, where he developed and implemented the RDM policy together with other PIs. He advanced to an important co-developer and -maintainer of the dtool ecosystem and published together with the original dtool authors on making dtool datasets findable with dserver [2]. He wants to leverage dtool for didactic purposes in RDM trainings and make it interoperable with other RDM ecosystems such as DataLad to embed it within the wider landscape of FAIR tools and services.
[1] T. S. G. Olsson and M. Hartley, “Lightweight data management with dtool,” PeerJ, vol. 7, p. e6562, Mar. 2019, doi: 10.7717/peerj.6562.
[2] J. L. Hörmann et al., “dtool and dserver: A flexible ecosystem for findable data,” PLOS ONE, vol. 19, no. 6, p. e0306100, Jun. 2024, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0306100.
