Liebe 4Culture Communities,
unsere Kolleg:innen waren mal wieder on tour 🛍️
✨ Dieses Mal war das Team der Cultural Research Data Academy beim Treffen der DHd-AG Referenzcurriculum in Berlin dabei!
👩🏫 Hierbei stellten sie unseren NFDI4Culture-Dienst, den „Educational Resource Finder“ vor, und sprachen ebenso über Metadatenschemata.
👏 Vielen Dank an die OrganisatorInnen und für die spannenden Beiträge und den Austausch mit allen Beteiligten!
The canton of Berne has launched a #chatbot on their geoinformation portal that lets users ask questions about available cantonal #geodata and its #metadata in natural language — in German, French, English, and more. It is not (yet?) a ‘talk to the map’ solution, but a discovery tool for navigating the website and finding data.
We are happy to release version 0.9 of **DatAasee** - a metadata-lake for libraries:
https://github.com/ulbmuenster/dataasee
#DatAasee is an #OpenSource #Metadata hub.
Yesterday, our colleague @Helena Cousijn attended the EARMA Annual Conference 2026 in Utrecht, where she facilitated a breakout table discussion on "Leveraging open research metadata in your work."
Great to see the #research management community engaging with open #metadata and how it can support their day-to-day work.
Our colleague @luismmontilla will be at #CRIS2026 in Ponta Delgada later this month, presenting on how open funding #metadata from the Crossref Grant Linking System can make research evaluation more transparent and complete.
We have persistent identifiers for research outputs (DOIs), researchers (ORCID), and institutions (ROR) — the Grant Linking System fills the missing piece: persistent identifiers for grants.
https://meeting.eurocris.org/cris2026/
#euroCRIS #grantlinking
Worth reading: Our colleague Rocío Gaudioso Pedraza wrote for the International Science Council's Open Science Round-Up on what research reform actually needs to succeed.
Recognising datasets, software, and peer reviews as research outputs is one thing. Being able to document, track, and share this information is another.
As she puts it: #metadata is not an afterthought. It's the ground we build on.
🔗 https://council.science/blog/open-science-round-up-the-hidden-infrastructure-behind-research-reform/
In this issue, we feature an editorial from Crossref that brings attention to the “invisible” role of metadata in shaping the future of research assessment. As the community moves beyond journal-based metrics, the piece shows why better data about research is essential to recognising the full range of scholarly contributions.
In this issue, we feature an editorial from Crossref that brings attention to the “invisible” role of metadata in shaping the future of research assessment. As the community moves beyond journal-based metrics, the piece shows why better data about research is essential to recognising the full range of scholarly contributions.
♻️ Don’t miss next week’s HMC training: Reusability of Scientific Data – for Matter!
Online training on FAIR reusability practices in the Research Field Matter, including documentation, metadata and licensing strategies.
With guest talks from Till Korten (Helmholtz AI) & Brian R. Pauw (BAM).
📅 21 May 2026 | Online
👉 https://helmholtz-metadaten.de/events/data-reusability-training-materie-may26
#HMCtraining #HMC2026 #Metadata
@doc @helmholtz_en @HelmholtzOpenScienceOffice @HelmholtzImaging @hzbde
NFDI4Culture
Spatialists
Christian Himpe
Crossref
Research Organization Registry
Crossref
Helmholtz Metadata Collab.
Alexander Winkler