MessageID: 202102161500 Time: 18.02.2021, 5:00 p.m. to 5:40 p.m. Affected: Trouble Ticket System GOTRS Impact: ticket processing possible, GOTRS web interface accessable

The maintenance work on the trouble ticket system GOTRS of the GWDG has been completed. The system is fully available again.

MessageID: 202102161500 Time: 18.02.2021, 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Affected: Trouble Ticket System GOTRS Impact: ticket processing delayed, GOTRS web interface unaccessable

On 18.02.2021 between 5:00 p.m. and approx. 6:00 p.m. the GWDG trouble ticket system GOTRS will be under maintenance. While it still will be possible to send requests as usual to our service hotline at support@gwdg.de , no automatic responses or ticket processing will take place, so some delays may be expected. Additionally the GOTRS web More….

The January/February issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following topics:

• End to the Requirement to Change Passwords After a Set Period of Time
• Using Graphical Interfaces on the GWDG Scientific Compute Cluster
• C# 9 Top-level Statements
• Open Forecast – an HPC Open Data Forecast Service

>> Click here for the GWDG News 1-2/2021

There will be a talk series (in German) organized by the Göttingen eResearch Alliance with the title “Rechtliche Aspekte im Forschungdaten-Management”. The following program is planned:

• 15.03.2021: Forschungsdaten und Urheberrecht (Prof. Dr. Andreas Wiebe und Michael Ernst)
• 16.03.2021: Datenschutz – Grundlagen und forschungsspezifische Besonderheiten (Florian Hallaschka)
• 17.03.2021: Datenschutz in der medizinischen Forschung (Dr. Thomas Langbein)
• 18.03.2021: Umgang mit Forschungsdaten: Maßgaben aus den Perspektiven von guter wissenschaftlicher Praxis und Forschungsförderung (Dr. Katharina

The Presidential Board of the University of Göttingen and the Management Board of the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) have ended the requirement to change passwords for the Einheitlicher Mitarbeiteraccount (EMA, staff accounts to access services such as email) after one year (or after 90 days if access to SAP is available).

This means that in the future, no requests to change passwords will be sent by email and accounts will no longer be blocked after missing the deadline. Reminders that were sent before this decision was implemented on 19 January 2021 can be ignored.

This change is