Digitalisation and Opening up of Science

Our interdisciplinary research group is situated at Technical University of Berlin, at Fraunhofer FOKUS and at Weizenbaum Institute. It researches the digitalisation and opening up of science, and puts a special emphasis on research data infrastructures.

At Technical University of Berlin, we are part of the Research Data Infrastructure group, at Fraunhofer FOKUS we are part of the Research Data Infrastructure group, and at Weizenbaum Institute we are part of the Digitalisation and Opening up of Science group.

The group is active in several third-party funded projects, especially within the Berlin University Alliance (BUA) and the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI). Our researchers bring in their expertise in these projects.

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Workshop Funded by Volkswagenstiftung
Together with two NFDI consortia and two data competency centers, we organized a workshop ‘Research Data and Software Competencies’. It received funding from the Volkswagenstiftung as part of the ‘Themenwoche Digitale Kompetenzen in der Wissenschaft’ and took place at Schloss Herrenhausen in Hannover in December 2024. Participants focused on three questions regarding essential research data and software competencies, their effective teaching, and collaboration for developing educational resources. Key outcomes include improved mutual understanding and the identification of common interests.
2024-12-02
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User Conference UC4B Hosted
Our group hosted the 1st Base4NFDI User Conference (UC4B 2024) in Berlin. Base4NFDI is an initiative that will develop and offer a set of common shared RDM enabling services to the NFDI community. Base4NFDI supports this via an iterative three-step process, allowing a participatory path to roll-out and, importantly, gaining consensus from the NFDI community along the way. Find more information here. Find the proceedings here.
2024-11-20
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Workshops at ESWC 2024 and ISWC 2024
Our group participated in ESWC 2024 in Hersonissos, Crete and ISWC 2024 in Baltimore, USA this year. At these events, we organized 3 workshops. At ESWC 2024, we organized the ‘1st International Workshop on Natural Scientific Language Processing and Research Knowledge Graphs (NSLP 2024)’ and the ‘4th Workshop on Metadata and Research (Objects) Management for Linked Open Science (DaMaLOS 2024)’. At ISWC 2024, we organized the ‘4th International Workshop on Scientific Knowledge: Representation, Discovery and Assessment (Sci-K 2024)’.
2024-11-13
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EOSC Symposium 2024
Our group actively participated in the EOSC Symposium 2024 and the co-located EOSCxNFDI event. Prof. Dr. Sonja Schimmler gave talks on ‘Base4NFDI - a European Perspective’ and ‘NFDI4DS - a European Perspective’. Further more, the group organized a world cafe session on ‘AI’. The EOSC Symposium 2024 was a critical event on the path to EOSC post-2027. It was a key event to network and exchange ideas with policy makers, funders, and representatives of research institutions, research communities, and data- and e-infrastructures active in the EOSC ecosystem.
2024-10-21
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Paper at SEMANTICS 2024
Our group participated in SEMANTICS 2024 in Amsterdam, Netherlands this year. We published our paper ‘Exploring Prompt Generation Utilizing Graph Search Algorithms for Ontology Matching’ co-authored by Julian Sampels, Sefika Efeoglu and Sonja Schimmler. It has been an outcome of our project class. Read the paper here. We also published a poster ‘NFDI4DSO: Towards a BFO Compliant Ontology for Data Science’ co-authored by Genet Asefa Gesese, Jörg Waitelonis, Zongxiong Chen, Sonja Schimmler and Harald Sack. It was written in the context of the project NFDI4DS.
2024-09-17
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